New Japan Umeda continues to offer budget accommodation in Osaka. Maeda's is not the only group intent on giving the (in) famous corner building a second life. The Nakagin Capsule Tower A606 ...

Reservations can be made on the Japanese-language website of Mikio’s company: (https://miraikurokawa.jp/). The Nakagin Capsule Tower is expected to disappear as early as the end of this year.

Tatsuyuki Maeda, 56, head of the Nakagin Capsule Tower Preservation and Restoration Project, said almost 200 inquiries came in from both in and outside Japan over the fate of apartments separated ...

Perhaps one of the most globally iconic buildings of that era could have been found in Tokyo, in the form of the Nakagin Capsule Tower, Kisho Kurokawa’s 1972 Metabolist apartment block.