Former Yokohama City Hall District Utilization Project in front of JR Kannai Station
District Named BASEGATE YOKOHAMA KANNAI

November 13, 2024
Representative Company Mitsui Fudosan Co., Ltd.
Kajima Corporation
Keikyu Corporation
The Dai-ichi Life Insurance Company, Limited
Takenaka Corporation
DeNA Co., Ltd.
Tokyu Corporation
Hoshino Resorts Inc.

Key Points of this Press Release

Large-scale, mixed-use project in front of JR Kannai Station named BASEGATE YOKOHAMA KANNAI. Names of each area that forms features of the district and details of facilities also finalized.

• Wonderia: An edutainment*1 facility that combines play and technology to offer a new entertainment experience
• THE LIVE: One of Japan’s largest permanent live viewing arenas, creating a space to enjoy the excitement of all kinds of live entertainment
• Opening of one of Japan’s largest restaurant zones full of live excitement with 34 small, characterful stores
• OMO7 Yokohama by Hoshino Resorts: The exciting OMO-brand urban hotel to make its first foray into Yokohama
• Launch of Yokohama City’s largest new industry creation center that connects all processes from invention to social implementation
• Largest environmentally friendly offices in Yokohama’s Kannai area are now open, providing open-plan lounge that fosters innovation

*1 Edutainment: A term coined by combining education and entertainment

Tokyo, Japan, November 13, 2024 – Mitsui Fudosan Co., Ltd., a leading global real estate company headquartered in Tokyo, in a consortium of eight companies of which it is the representative company, announced today that they have named the Former Yokohama City Hall District Utilization Project “BASEGATE YOKOHAMA KANNAI.” The eight companies in the consortium are Mitsui Fudosan, Kajima Corporation, Keikyu Corporation, The Dai-ichi Life Insurance Company, Limited, Takenaka Corporation, DeNA Co., Ltd., Tokyu Corporation, and Hoshino Resorts Inc. Construction is expected to be completed in December 2025 and the grand opening is scheduled for spring 2026.

TThe project is a large-scale, mixed-use project characterized by a fusion of old and new, creating a center for entertainment and innovation symbolic of the next generation of Yokohama by planning a diverse lineup of facilities and preserving and utilizing the former City Hall administrative building. Names and overviews of key facilities of the district such as Japan’s largest permanent live viewing arena, edutainment facilities, hotels, and offices, and new industry creation center have also been finalized.

Overall district rendering (night view)

■About the District Name BASEGATE YOKOHAMA KANNAI

The name BASEGATE YOKOHAMA KANNAI is derived from a combination of nouns “base” (base, starting point, bases in baseball) and “gate” (front door, entrance). It reflects the district’s location in Kannai, which served as the port that reopened Japan to the rest of the world and served as a cultural gateway, expressing the project’s aim of making the district once again a base that connects the various qualities of the whole Yokohama area and become the gate (gateway) to new exciting experiences and encounters.

The gate that connects “B” and “E” of the logo expresses the intention of making the district a gate (bridge) that links the everyday with the extraordinary, and the past history with the future as well as a gate (entrance) that leads to new exciting experiences and encounters. An original font is used in the logo, keeping the height of horizontal lines consistent based on a motif of horizontal lines that characterize the buildings in the district. The district’s name and logo were created and finalized by DeNA in partnership with other companies.

In conjunction with the decision on the names of the district, the names of the buildings have also been decided as follows.

■Edutainment Facility to Be Named “Wonderia,” and Japan’s Largest Live Viewing Arena to Be Named “THE LIVE”

At DeNA’s edutainment facility Wonderia, visitors can immerse themselves in spaces created using projection mapping and other technologies while discovering stunning scenery and unknown creatures. THE LIVE is the live viewing arena for the Yokohama DeNA BAYSTARS, equipped with a large LED screen approximately 18 meters wide and 8 meters high and high-performance sound system. Visitors can enjoy refreshments while experiencing the thrill of baseball games and other sports, live concerts, and other entertainment content.

For more details of facilities operated by the DeNA Group, please see the news release published today by DeNA Group.

URL： https://dena.com/intl/press/4746

■Opening of One of Japan’s Largest Restaurant Zones Full of Live Excitement with 34 Small, Characterful Stores

One of Japan’s largest subdivided restaurant zones offering a diverse range of popular stores from all over the country will occupy the retail area on a corner of the Stadium Side Terrace and The Legacy. All tenants will be selected by public application, with 34 characterful stores including popular local names in the lineup. In a space with a live atmosphere resembling a street market, the store and its customers become one, and the restaurant zone aspires to become a new place of food culture and appeal that can be enjoyed alone or with friends.

Rendering of Japan’s largest restaurant zone full of small stores

■Hotel Named OMO7 Yokohama by Hoshino Resorts

Centered on its five brands Hoshinoya, Kai, Risonare, OMO, and BEB, Hoshino Resort’s concept is making travel enjoyable. Hoshino Resorts has chosen the name OMO7 Yokohama by Hoshino Resorts as the name of its first OMO brand hotel in Yokohama to open in The Legacy building.

The OMO brand represents a new type of hotel created by Hoshino Resorts’ city-loving employees in collaboration with local communities. To date, 17 OMO hotels have opened nationwide. The number following “OMO” in the hotel name indicates the scope of services provided. OMO7 means a full-service hotel forming a city landmark with approximately 280 guest rooms, café/restaurant, banquet hall, local guided activities, etc. OMO7 Yokohama will be the fourth OMO7 hotel following those in Asahikawa, Osaka, and Kochi, providing guest rooms and services for total enjoyment of the city of Yokohama.

The Kannai district in Yokohama has a foreign, exotic atmosphere – a blend of Japanese and foreign cultures, and of new and traditional elements. Located between a long-established neighborhood much loved by locals and Yokohama’s Bay Area full of popular tourist spots, OMO7 Yokohama proposes an urban hotel as a base for exploring Yokohama in new ways and rediscovering what the city has to offer.

Exterior rendering of OMO7 Yokohama by Hoshino Resorts

■Launch of Yokohama City’s Largest New Industry Creation Center that Connects All Processes from Invention to Social Implementation

On the 6th floor of the Tower, Stellar Science Foundation (SS-F) and Mitsui Fudosan will collaborate to create one of Yokohama City’s largest new industry creation centers that will produce groundbreaking inventions in life science and take it through to social implementation (innovation).

Mitsui Fudosan plans to develop a rental wet lab zone named Mitsui Link Lab*2 as the first rental lab and office in Yokohama. In partnership with Life Science Innovation Network Japan (LINK-J), Mitsui Fudosan will construct an ecosystem for new industry creation mainly in life science by utilizing its track record and know-how gained from its life science innovation promotion project, which provides locations such as offices and laboratories as well as building communities, and experience in creating new industries through neighborhood creation as an industry developer.

SS-F will install machinery and equipment needed for research, provide meeting spaces for design thinking to foster a free flow of ideas, and an event space and lounge to build an ecosystem for continuous creation of groundbreaking inventions as a result of young researchers coming together in a community to produce new ideas.

orking together with LINK-J and SS-F, Mitsui Fudosan will promote and strengthen the creation of new industries mainly in life science in Yokohama by providing support in both tangible and intangible aspects. Their goal is to establish a hub that will generate a series of new inventions, create businesses that make a big social impact, and build an ecosystem that will contribute to a sustainable future.

Press release on the collaboration between Mitsui Fudosan and SS-F
https://www.mitsuifudosan.co.jp/corporate/news/2022/0310_02/ (in Japanese)

Image of Mitsui Link Lab zone
(Photo is of Mitsui Link Lab Shinkiba 2)

Event networking by LINK-J
Image supplied by LINK-J

*2 Rental lab and office Mitsui Link Lab
Urban and seeds-proximity type rental lab and office facility operated by Mitsui Fudosan https://www.mitsui-linklab.jp/ (in Japanese)

■Largest Environmentally Friendly Offices in Yokohama’s Kannai District

The office floors of the Tower (12th to 33rd floors) have the largest floor plate in the Kannai area, exceeding 21,528 ft2 (2,000 m²) per floor, ceiling height of 2.8 m, maximum length of approximately 18 m and a square, column-less space, allowing for a highly flexible and efficient office layout.

Overlooking Yokohama Port, Yokohama Park, and Yokohama Stadium, the 11th floor Sky Lobby floor, which serves as the entrance to the office floors, is a space where visitors can feel the warmth of greenery and trees against a panoramic backdrop of the sea and sky.

With a vast view of the port city of Yokohama, the facility will include a lounge, coworking space, and shared offices that promote interaction among office workers beyond corporate boundaries and innovation creation.

Rendering of 11th floor Sky Lobby

Rendering of 11th floor Sky Lobby lounge (daytime)

Rendering of 11th floor Sky Lobby lounge (night time)

In addition, energy conservation was achieved by reducing the heat load through openings of exterior walls that take s sunlight into consideration, the full use of low-E double-glazing, and the installation of a heat recovery system, as well as the installation of high-efficiency equipment such as individual air-cooled heat-pump packaged air-conditioners. For the office space, the project has acquired CASBEE Wellness Office certification and ZEB Oriented certification, and for the Tower, it plans to acquire DBJ Green Building certification.

Rendering of office floors

Bank plan of upper-level office floors

■District Overview

The project is a large-scale, mixed-use project with total floor area of approximately 1,383,162 ft2 (128,500 m²) conveniently located in front of Kannai Station on the JR Negishi Line and Kannai Station on the Yokohama Municipal Subway Blue Line, and a short walk from Nihon-ōdōri Station on the Yokohama Minatomirai Railway’s Minatomirai Line. It will be directly connected to Yokohama Stadium and Yokohama Park by a raised walkway (established by Yokohama City, to open at the same time as the facilities), which will increase the district’s navigability (access to and from rail stations and the project). The Central Plaza will create a vibrant neighborhood as a venue for various events.

“Minato-Machi Live” is the neighborhood creation concept for the project. Characterized by a fusion of old and new, it will form an elegant cityscape by preserving and utilizing The Legacy (former Yokohama City Hall administrative building) and passing down the culture of Yokohama. It will also be a center for entertainment and innovation that symbolizes Yokohama of the next generation, creating a neighborhood that will be a source of new, exciting experiences and vibrancy.

Overall district rendering (daytime view)

The district’s name and logo were created and finalized by DeNA in partnership with other companies.
DeNA
・Yoshihisa Watanabe, Producer
・Yuki Kawaragi, Project Director
meet & meet
・Shinsaku Ogawa, Communication Planner
・Gen Kogusuri, Copywriter and Creative Director
AYOND
・Shun Sasaki, Art Director and Designer

Building layout and walkway routes

Area map

■About Contribution to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the Project

The Sustainable Development Goals, or SDGs, are a set of international goals for 2030 adopted at the UN Summit of 2015. There are 17 goals and 169 targets, and they require initiatives to be undertaken through the collaboration of various entities. The project will conduct initiatives conscious of contributing to the following five goals in particular.