re: Why aren't skyscrapers taller in Tokyo?

Not allowed by neighborhood associations.

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OP said Tokyo, not Tokyo and Yokohama and Sapporo, etc. He also said Tokyo, not Tokyo and the surrounding metropolitan area. Google says Tokyo has 13.62 million. I also spent 8 months there, dumbass. The buildings are fricking tall.

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Geeze, touchy. We're splitting hairs over Tokyo vs Tokyo metropolitan area. The real question is why aren't the buildings taller? You could accommodate a lot more people and lower the price of rent for them. Going more vertical just makes sense, I wonder why they don't do more of it.

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Why aren't skyscrapers taller in Tokyo?

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there is a live volcano right off shore.

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Why would a volcano prevent skyscrapers exactly?

Easier targeting for B-29's

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Parts of Tokyo have a maximum building height of 200m due to the flight paths of airplanes using Haneda Airport.

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I googled

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Tokyo is on a relatively small island. If they were any higher it would raise the center of gravity. Possibly causing the island to tip over too easily in the event of a strong storm.

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Ah, makes sense.


But really they should just build reverse skyscrapers under the ocean at that point.
To act as a a counterbalance

Most likely BS but;

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Kenkyo’ is the virtue of modesty in Japan. This virtue stresses being reserved and practical. Absurdity and individualism are rarely seen as positive characteristics. Japanese design prioritizes simplicity and minimalism. Traditional Taoist belief is that beauty should blossom in the mind and not be dictated by one’s physical surroundings. Japanese interiors and exteriors are often carefully simple, with little “flair”. Modesty. Contrast the Kenkyo mindset to the showy ambition of the Shanghai of today, or New York in the 1920s, and you can see why the skyline of Tokyo has remained simple.

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'Shrinkage?'

I was on the 18 floor of the Takanawa Prince Hotel during a 7.8 a few years back. The paintings were coming off the walls (on wires) maybe eight inches and then slapping the wall, only to swing out again and repeat. This went on for maybe a full minute before it stopped. 18 floors was plenty high off the ground for me.

You are correct. I could look out my window and see the apartment windows of maybe 200,000 people. Lots of folks in Tokyo. I know the buildings are built differently to take the stresses of an earthquake, and I think it limits the building height that works in a big shake.