Name: Inside Japan’s CAPSULE Tower | 140 TINY Tokyo Apartments
Uploaded: 2021-11-15T19:20:31.000Z
Duration: 17 min 46 s
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So this incredible, astonishing looking building behind me is the Noggin capsule tower building.

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It is perhaps not only my favorite building in all of Tokyo, but in all Japan.

And while I'd like to tell you a happy story about how next year it's his 50th year anniversary.

It may look like Jenga with washing machines but don't be fooled.

These are 140 tiny capsule apartments, but why was it built?

What's it like inside and who has called it home these past 50 years?

We're going inside the neck again, capsule tower to take a look at the past, present and future of this incredible building.

There may never be again and this time next year it may be lost forever.

Uh Tokyo, the center of Japan, both industrially and politically.

In the 1960s and 70s Japan's Postwar economy was experiencing explosive growth in a period referred to as the economic miracle?

The country was becoming a dominant player in the export of high tech electronics and rapid urbanization was sweeping the country.

In 1945 50% of the nation's population lived in rural areas, but by 1970 that figure was less than 30%.

And Tokyo is very much at the epicenter of the migration, unsurprisingly affordable living space became increasingly elusive.

It was against this backdrop of economic prosperity and rapid urbanization that a group of Japanese architects birth.

The metal is a movement, a design philosophy that incorporated aspects of organic biological growth in the same way an organic life form grows changes and adapts with its surroundings.

Why shouldn't a building One of the first buildings to follow this philosophy was the Yamanashi Press and Broadcast center, built 1966 with its exposed pillars allowing future floors to be added above 1967 came the Shizuoka Press and Broadcasting tower, which looks more akin to a plant than a building with its cantilevered floors protruding outwards.

But it was the knack again, capsule tower opened in 1972 and designed by visionary architect Kisho Kurokawa that went on to become the iconic symbol of the metal is um philosophy with the capsules prefabricated outside of Tokyo.

The assembly of the tower itself was completed in just 30 days with 140 capsules measuring 2.5 m wide and four m long and just like a regular apartment.

One man lucky enough to own his own capsule since 2000 and 10.

Come on little buddy uh studies the sad irony of the nextgen capsule tower, is that the building that was meant to adapt and last forever likely be gone in the next 2 to 3 years When the tower was built.

The original plan was to replace all the capsules every 25 years, effectively dismantling the entire structure and reassembling it.

However, to do that required not only money, but the permission of all the owners of all the capsules.

Given the removal of just one capsule, would require many other capsules to be removed.

A pretty big floor in the grand scheme of things.

Perhaps unsurprisingly then, none of the capsules were ever replaced and the building has fallen into disrepair.

Underneath the impressive exterior, the building of tomorrow is a crumbling asbestos filled mess and today only a handful of residents actually live in the tower.

The sad truth is, in recent times, Tokyo has faced a great deal of gentrification and many of the historic buildings with unique architectural characteristics are disappearing during the economic miracle.

Architects could get away with pretty much anything, not so much today, You only have to look at the bland, forgettable buildings that crowd around the neck.

Dragon capsule tower to get a sense of where things are headed joining us inside.

Today is my good friend and Tokyo real estate expert Alex Shapiro, who can attest to the rapidly changing skyline over the last decade.

They have a very kind of utilitarian mindset towards architecture in Japan for the most part, particularly in cities, right?

They want to get the job done around here.

This is generic buildings, you know, you could be anywhere in the world at all in the same until you see quite a few buildings disappear in recent years, right?

So you've had the Sega building over in Akihabara, you also had hard expression which was one of my favorite buildings in Tokyo actually is this old, it looks like a house summer.

They sort of think, well let's just make something that's more easy and usable people but you don't do it at the cost of design.

So I'm looking forward to going in there.

I wanted to go in this building for nine years now and I've stood at this spot many times and taking photos and wanted to go in.

Minor sound is taking us on a tour of three separate capsules and the first one is the original untouched room.

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Yeah and that's including all of everything here like all of the cabinets and everything but I love the way it's also built into it.

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All right so before they had cassettes and cds and all that these guys and you've probably seen this import fiction actually.

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