is a major office development by Mori Building Company in

Minato, Tokyo is a Special wards of Tokyo, special ward of Tokyo, Japan. It is also called Minato City in English. Minato was formed in 1947 as a merger of Akasaka, Tokyo, Akasaka, Azabu and Shiba, Tokyo, Shiba wards following Tokyo City's Local Autonomy Ac ...

. Opened in 1986, the complex includes the

Ark Hills Sengokuyama Mori Tower The is a mixed-use skyscraper in Roppongi, Minato ward, Tokyo. The building was designed by Irie Miyake Architects and Engineers and Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects; Mori Building Company was the developer, while the construction process was m ...

, the Ark Mori Building, the ANA InterContinental Tokyo Hotel, the world-class

Suntory Hall The is a concert venue in the central Akasaka district of Tokyo, Japan. Part of the Ark Hills complex, it consists of a main concert hall, widely considered one of the finest in the world for its acoustics – Herbert von Karajan called it “ ...

concert hall, a TV studio and several apartment buildings.

TV Asahi JOEX-DTV (channel 5), branded as , and better known as , is a Japanese television station serving the Kanto region as the flagship station of the All-Nippon News Network. It is owned-and-operated by the a subsidiary of , itself controlled by ...

still uses its former headquarters as an annexe for some of its departments and subsidiaries; the network's headquarters themselves were moved to the nearby building designed by

Fumihiko Maki was a Japanese architect. In 1993, he received the Pritzker Prize for his work, which often explores pioneering uses of new materials and fuses the cultures of east and west. Maki died on 6 June 2024, at the age of 95. Early life Maki was born ...

in 2003. Every year the area celebrates the autumn festival ''Ark Hills Music Week'', that includes music, dancing, food, art and shopping. The name "Ark" is derived from the location of the complex, at the intersection of the Akasaka,

Roppongi Roppongi (, , 'six trees') is a district of Minato, Tokyo, Minato, Tokyo, Japan, famous for the affluent Roppongi Hills development area and popular night club scene. A few foreign embassies are located near Roppongi, and the night life is popu ...

and

Kasumigaseki Kasumigaseki (霞が関, 霞ヶ関 or 霞ケ関) is a district in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Chiyoda, Tokyo. Most government ministries are located in the neighbourhood, making its name a metonym for the Civil service of Japan, Japanese bureaucracy, while Nag ...

districts. Another explanation is that the name stands for Akasaka and Roppongi knot. The complex lays on a slight slope, rather than a hill. The heliport on the roof of the Ark Mori Building used to provide direct flights between Ark Hills and the

Narita International Airport , also known as Tokyo-Narita International Airport or simply Narita Airport, formerly and originally known as , is the secondary international airport serving the Greater Tokyo Area, the only other one being Haneda Airport (HND). It is about e ...

(approximately 20 minutes), until it was discontinued on December 1, 2015.

Buildings

*Ark Mori Building *Ark Towers East *Ark Towers West *Ark Towers South *

*Ark Hills Side *Ark Hills Executive Tower *Ark Hills Annex Ark Hills was expanded with the 22-storey Ark Hills Front Tower in 2011 and the 47-storey

in 2012. ARK Mori Building waterfall 2018.jpg, Waterfall ARK Garden 2018.jpg, Ark Garden ARK Mori Building skylight 2018.jpg, Building skylight ARK Mori Building Covered plaza 2018.jpg, Covered plaza ARK Mori Building Lobby 2018.jpg, Ark Mori Building lobby

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