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Former Tokyo Governor Shintaro Ishihara repeatedly called for moving the market to Toyosu, Koto. [4] The new Toyosu Market cost $5 billion to build. [1] The long-anticipated move to the new market was scheduled to take place in November 2016, in preparation for the 2020 Summer Olympics, [5] but on August 31, 2016, the move was postponed. [6]
On December 31, 1907, a ball signifying New Year's Day was first dropped at Times Square, [160] and the Square has held the main New Year's celebration in New York City ever since. On that night, hundreds of thousands of people congregate to watch the Waterford Crystal ball being lowered on a pole atop the building, marking the start of the new ...
The move to Toyosu Market was planned to have taken place in November 2016, in preparation for the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. [11] Part of the plan was to retain a retail market, roughly a quarter of the current operation, in Tsukiji. [12] On 31 August 2016, the Tsukiji fish market move was postponed. [13]
TOKYO, Jan 5 (Reuters) - The owner of a Japanese sushi restaurant chain on Saturday set a record by paying more than $3 million for a bluefin tuna in the year's first auction at Tokyo's new fish ...
Shibuya Crossing is the world’s busiest pedestrian crossing, with as many as 3,000 people crossing at a time. [2] [3] [4] Tokyo-based architecture professor Shane Flynn has said Shibuya Crossing is "a great example of what Tokyo does best when it's not trying." [5]
One Times Square (also known as 1475 Broadway, the New York Times Building, the New York Times Tower, the Allied Chemical Tower or simply as the Times Tower) is a 25-story, 363-foot-high (111 m) skyscraper on Times Square in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City.
Nasdaq MarketSite is located at the northwest corner of 4 Times Square, facing Broadway to the west and 43rd Street to the north, along Times Square in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. It has an eight-story cylindrical facade. [2] [3] At street level is a three-story glass facade.
The new Asian specialty store will occupy about 20, 700 square feet of space currently occupied by Times Supermarket along Kailua Road, according to a leasing brochure by property owner Alexander ...