Ao Building is a commercial building located in

Kita-Aoyama is a district of Minato, Tokyo, Japan. Education Minato City Board of Education operates public elementary and junior high schools. Kita-Aoyama 1-2-chōme The Japanese addressing system is used to identify a specific location in Japan. Whe ...

3-chome,

Minato-ku, Tokyo is a special ward of Tokyo, Japan. It is also called Minato City in English. Minato was formed in 1947 as a merger of Akasaka, Azabu and Shiba wards following Tokyo City's transformation into Tokyo Metropolis. The modern Minato ward exhibi ...

. AO Building was designed by Nihon Sekkei, which also designed

Ghibli Museum The is a museum showcasing the work of the Japanese animation studio Studio Ghibli. It is located in Inokashira Park in Mitaka, a western city within the Tokyo Metropolitan Area, in Japan. The museum combines features of a children's museum, ...

and

Toranomon Hills is a skyscraper complex built by Mori Building in the Toranomon district of Minato, Tokyo, Japan. Designed by Nihon Sekkei, it is located around the new Loop Road No. 2, a surface artery that connects the Shinbashi and Toranomon districts. His ...

. The 16-story

reinforced concrete Reinforced concrete, also called ferroconcrete or ferro-concrete, is a composite material in which concrete's relatively low tensile strength and ductility are compensated for by the inclusion of reinforcement having higher tensile strength or ...

building is asymmetrical and thus the upper floors are larger than lower floors. It has 2 basement floors and 16 floors above ground, and consists of a low-rise building and a high-rise building, the latter of which is approximately 90m tall. It opened on March 26, 2009. It is lit up with LEDs at night. The name comes from " Aoyama" and also is a homophone of "let's meet" (会おう) in Japanese. The building cost approximately $200 million to construct and develop. The high-rise building houses office tenants, and the low-rise building houses commercial facilities such as fashion brand stores such as Cinéma Quanon from France and

Momotaro Jeans Momotaro Jeans (Japanese: 桃太郎ジーンズ) is a denim brand established in Kojima, Okayama in 2005 and named after the popular Japanese folk tale of Momotarō. Momotaro gave their jeans a signature pink-line selvedge in reference to their ...

from Kurashiki, beauty salons, restaurants serving Italian, Austrian, and Hungarian cuisine, as well as cafes and cafe bars. The building was built on the site of the former

Kinokuniya Kinokuniya (紀ノ国屋) a high-end Japanese supermarket chain headquartered in Shinjuku Ward, Tokyo. Kinokuniya Co., Ltd. became a wholly owned subsidiary of East Japan Railway Company on April 1, 2010. There is no relationship with retailer a ...

, which has reopened in the basement.

CHANEL Chanel ( , ) is a French luxury fashion house founded in 1910 by Coco Chanel in Paris. It is privately owned by French brothers, Alain and Gérard Wertheimer, through the holding company Chanel Limited, established in 2018 and headquarte ...

had a street-level store selling perfumes and cosmetics, now closed.

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