Format
Brief
City
Kashiwa
State/Province
Chiba
Country
Japan
Metro Area
Tokyo
Project Type
Planned Community or Resort
Location Type
Inner Suburban
Land Uses
Cinema
Cultural Use
Education
Event Space
Fitness Center
Hotel
Medical
Multifamily For-Sale Housing
Multifamily Rental Housing
Museum
Office
Open space
Restaurant
Retail
Streets
Structured Parking
Transportation Use
University
Keywords
Collaboration
College campus
Coworking space
Development
District energy
Green building
ground-floor retail
Group living
Healthy place
Historic preservation
Hotel/retail development
Innovation
LEED ND Plan Platinum certified
Master-planned community
Meeting space
Mixed use–three uses or more
Mixed-use development
Mixed-use town center
Multifamily housing
Multigenerational
Neighborhood retail center
Office
Pedestrian friendly
Placemaking
Preservation
Public-private partnership
Restaurants
sustainability
Town center
Transit-oriented development
ULI Global Awards for Excellence 2017 Finalist
Site Size
675
acres
acres
hectares
Date Started
2000
Date Opened
2014
A brief is a short version of a case study.
Kashiwa, a city with a land area of 115 square kilometers (44 sq mi) and a population of just over 400,000, is in Chiba Prefecture, northeast of Tokyo in Japan’s Kanto region. Though home to companies in food processing and other industries, as well as a professional soccer team, it is now best known as the home of Kashiwa-no-ha Smart City. Currently being developed on 273 hectares (675 ac) in northwestern Chiba Prefecture, Kashiwa-no-ha Smart City was launched in 2005 with the opening of Kashiwa-no-ha Campus Station on the Tsukuba Express train line. The land is divided into 299 parcels, to be subdivided further into blocks with interconnecting streets and pathways. Initial development is taking place in parcels 147, 148, 149, 150, and 151. This 42-hectare (104 ac) group of parcels extends outward from Kashiwa-no-ha Campus Station and encompasses the University of Tokyo Kashiwa Campus, Chiba University Kashiwa-no-ha Campus, Kashiwa-no-ha Park, and industrial areas.
Accessible from Tokyo in less than an hour by train, Kashiwa-no-ha is an area rich in natural beauty as well as the home of a concentration of academic and research institutions. Creation of the grand design for the project was from the beginning a collaborative endeavor, with Chiba Prefecture, Kashiwa, the University of Tokyo, and Chiba University involved in the planning and deliberation.
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Format
Brief
City
Kashiwa
State/Province
Chiba
Country
Japan
Metro Area
Tokyo
Project Type
Planned Community or Resort
Location Type
Inner Suburban
Land Uses
Cinema
Cultural Use
Education
Event Space
Fitness Center
Hotel
Medical
Multifamily For-Sale Housing
Multifamily Rental Housing
Museum
Office
Open space
Restaurant
Retail
Streets
Structured Parking
Transportation Use
University
Keywords
Collaboration
College campus
Coworking space
Development
District energy
Green building
ground-floor retail
Group living
Healthy place
Historic preservation
Hotel/retail development
Innovation
LEED ND Plan Platinum certified
Master-planned community
Meeting space
Mixed use–three uses or more
Mixed-use development
Mixed-use town center
Multifamily housing
Multigenerational
Neighborhood retail center
Office
Pedestrian friendly
Placemaking
Preservation
Public-private partnership
Restaurants
sustainability
Town center
Transit-oriented development
ULI Global Awards for Excellence 2017 Finalist
Site Size
675
acres
acres
hectares
Date Started
2000
Date Opened
2014
Website
www.kashiwanoha-smartcity.com/en
Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pq6Tlo_VpbU
Project address
UDCK, Kashiwanoha Campus 148-4, 178-4
Wakashiba, Kashiwa, Chiba Prefecture
Developer
Mitsui Fudosan Co. Ltd.
Tokyo, Japan
Owner
Mitsui Fudosan Co. Ltd.
Master planner
Chiba Prefecture, Kashiwa
University of Tokyo
Chiba University
Consultants
Hitachi Ltd.
Nikken Sekkei
Glumac
City of Portland
Murase Associates
EcoNorthwest
Architect
ZGF Architects LLP
Portland, Oregon, USA
Nikken Sekkei Ltd.
Tokyo, Japan
Landscape architect
Jun Mitsui & Associates
Tokyo, Japan
Interviewees
Atsushi Deguchi, President, Urban Design Center Kashiwa-no-ha (UDCK), Professor, Department of Socio-Cultural Environmental Studies, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, University of Tokyo
Jun Mitsui, Architect, AIA/JIA, Principal, Jun Mitsui & Associates Inc.
Charles Kelley Jr., AIA, LEED AP, Principal, ZGF Architects LLP
ULI Staff
Patrick L. Phillips
Global Chief Executive Officer
John Fitzgerald
CEO, ULI Asia Pacific
Kathleen B. Carey
President and CEO, ULI Foundation
Payton Chung
Director, Case Studies and Publications
Michael Deininger
Migiwa Yamamoto
Principal Authors
James A. Mulligan
Senior Editor
Laura Glassman
Publications Professionals LLC
Manuscript Editor
Betsy Van Buskirk
Creative Director
Anne Morgan
Graphic Design
ULI Global Awards for Excellence 2017 Finalist