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Sompo Japan Building

Japan

The 1019th tallest building in the world

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The Sompo Japan Head Office Building (Sonpo Japan Honsha Biru) is the corporate headquarters for Sompo Japan Insurance. It is located in the district Nishi-Shinjuku in Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan. At 200 meters (656 ft), the building is the 28th tallest building in Tokyo and the 33rd tallest in Japan. It was designed by Yoshikazu Uchida. On the street level is Seiji Togo Memorial Sompo Japan Museum of Art, where one of Vincent van Gogh's "Sunflowers" series of paintings is located. The building is similar in appearance to Chase Tower. The building made an appearance in the 1984 film The Return of Godzilla.

Building data from Wikidata (CC0); heights normalised. Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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