Sakura Tower is a 20-story modern office building in
Kyauktada Township
Kyauktada Township ( ) is the center of downtown Yangon, Myanmar. The township consists of nine wards, and shares borders with Botataung Township in the east, Seikkan Township and Yangon River in the south, Pabedan Township in the west and Mi ...
,
Yangon
Yangon, formerly romanized as Rangoon, is the capital of the Yangon Region and the largest city of Myanmar. Yangon was the List of capitals of Myanmar, capital of Myanmar until 2005 and served as such until 2006, when the State Peace and Dev ...
,
Myanmar
Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar; and also referred to as Burma (the official English name until 1989), is a country in northwest Southeast Asia. It is the largest country by area in Mainland Southeast Asia and has ...
. The tower was completed by
Japanese contractors in 1999
and had been the
tallest building in Myanmar from 1999 to 2016.
[According to the tower's web site]
it is a high 20-story tower, completed in 1999. A 2014 National Geographic article, , identifies the Sakura Tower as the tallest building in Yangon.
It stands opposite to
Sule Shangri-La Hotel across the
Sule Pagoda Road.
Yangon Japanese Association resides on the 12th floor.
Yangon Japanese Association, Myanmar, Yangon, Kyauktada , Yangon Yellow Pages
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Buildings and structures in Yangon
Office buildings completed in 1999
Japan–Myanmar relations