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Remains of the Yodobashi Purification Plant (Shinjuku-ku) Aerial photograph

February 26, 2008

July 23, 1970

The skyscraper that was first constructed on the remains of the Yodobashi Purification Plant was the Keio Plaza Hotel. The Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building was completed in 1991, and the area grew into a cluster of skyscrapers, making up the Shinjuku subcenter.

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