A newly constructed residential building in suburban Tokyo will be pulled down after incensed locals complained the structure blocked their Mt. Fuji views.
A newly constructed residential building in suburban Tokyo will be pulled down the month before the apartments were due to be handed over to buyers, after incensed locals complained the structure blocked their views of Mt. Fuji.
The 10-story apartment building on Fujimi Street—which translates to ‘Fuji view’—in the suburb of Kunitachi is comprised of 18 housing units, which range in price from around ¥70 million to ¥100 million , according to the builder Sekisui House Ltd.“We concluded that the view from Fujimi Street should take priority. We have voluntarily decided to cancel the project,” it said in a statement on its website.
The company will compensate buyers’ costs and help arrange other housing for them if necessary, a spokesperson told Bloomberg News. Any financial loss on the soon-to-be-demolished building wasn’t disclosed. Views of Mt. Fuji, a Unesco World Heritage Site, are a real estate selling point in Japan. ‘Fujimi’ is a common term that can be used to label anything from streets to apartment blocks to a While views of the iconic mountain are highly valued by Japanese people, the right of tourists to see them have. The nation is experiencing a tourism boom due to the weak yen and post-pandemic urge to travel, and locals have been complaining that visitors are causing disruption at popular Mt.
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