Skyscraper Shinjuku Mitsui is located in a special area of Shinjuku, administrative and commercial centre of the Prefecture of Tokyo. Here is the busiest train station in the world, through which passes more than 3, 5 million people a day. The area around Shinjuku station there are hotels, shopping malls, cinemas, restaurants, many office and residential buildings.

In this part of the capital is somewhat higher Tokyo skyscrapers: the "smallest" of them - Keio Plaza Hotel North tower (47 floors, 180 meters), the largest is the Tokyo metro Government building (48 floors, 243 meters). Skyscraper Shinjuku Mitsui parameters is somewhere in the middle of this gathering of the giants – with 55 floors and a height of 225 meters, he ranks eighth in the list of skyscrapers in Tokyo.

The building was built in 1972-1974, on the fashion of the time – in the style of skyscrapers being built in the United States. With East and West sides of the building wall black lines redrawn. The building has two gardens with artificial ponds, one on the roof, the other at its base. In the building rent office space, many companies, there is also a restaurant and shops.

Among Tokyo's skyscrapers are not only offices, but also residential buildings. Building giants while stoically endure regularly occurring in Japan, earthquake – shaken, but not falling, however, are not the most commercially successful form of residential property. Residents of the upper floors is not so easy to get out of the building during the earthquake, because the Elevator can not use, a staircase takes time, and no other exits. Moreover, when the tremors stopped, the skyscraper is still some time continues to swing. While scientists predict that tectonic activity in the area of the Japanese capital only increases with time, and the Japanese civil engineers continue to work to ensure that new "skyscraper" has become safer.