Tokyo Opera City Tower
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is a skyscraper
Skyscraper
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 located in Shinjuku, Tokyo
Shinjuku, Tokyo
is one of the 23 special wards of Tokyo, Japan. It is a major commercial and administrative center, housing the busiest train station in the world and the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building, the administration center for the government of Tokyo.As of 2008, the ward has an estimated population...

, Japan
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. Completed in 1996, it stands 234 metres (768 feet) high and has 54 floors; it is the third-tallest building in Shinjuku and sixth-tallest in Tokyo. The closest train station to Opera City is Hatsudai
Hatsudai Station
Hatsudai Station is a railway station on the Keiō New Line in Shibuya, Tokyo. Hatsudai is the closest station to Opera City Tower and the New National Theatre, Tokyo...

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The building houses the New National Theater in its lower levels. The fifth through fifty-second floors are devoted to office space: the building's best-known tenants are Microsoft Corp. and Apple Inc.

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