Azabudai Hills

Azabudai Hills is a 24-hectare mixed-use development opened by Mori Building in November 2023, the firm’s largest project to date and the most significant addition to Tokyo’s mixed-use stock since Tokyo Midtown in 2007. Classified A++ in the Malls.com framework, the approximately 70,000 square meters of retail across Hills Walk and the central plaza function as the commercial layer of a complex built around three experience-driven traffic generators that extend the Mori Building format: Mori JP Tower at 325 meters as Japan’s tallest building, the Mori Building Digital Art Museum operated by teamLab Borderless relocated from Odaiba, and the central plaza and pavilions designed by Heatherwick Studio that establish landscape and craft as the property’s public-facing identity rather than retail facade.

The development spans the Toranomon, Roppongi, and Azabudai districts of Minato Ward, integrating with the Tokyo Metro Hibiya Line at Kamiyacho Station and the Namboku Line at Roppongi-itchome Station. Surrounding Minato Ward ranks first nationally in household income, with the Roppongi-Azabu corridor concentrating embassies, international schools, and the long-term expatriate residential base. The British School in Tokyo relocated to the property in 2023, anchoring the family demographic. Aman Tokyo branded residences occupy floors 54 to 64 of Mori JP Tower, and the Janu Tokyo hotel opened on floors 1 to 13 in 2024 as Aman’s first sister-brand property globally.

The retail tenant base of approximately 150 stores and food and beverage outlets distributes across Hills Walk and the basement-level Azabudai Hills Market food hall. Hermes operates a major store at the entrance pavilion. Pelican Bakery, the long-running Asakusa institution, opened its first Mori Building location at the property. Dining concentrates contemporary Japanese fine dining, French and Italian restaurants, and the Janu Tokyo restaurant program on the lower hotel floors. The merchandising mix weights toward wellness, craft, and cultural retail rather than mass luxury, distinguishing Azabudai from the Roppongi Hills format that the same operator runs three blocks away.

For brands evaluating Tokyo, Azabudai Hills offers the Mori Building experience-driven traffic model in its most current form, with teamLab and the Heatherwick landscape as the property’s defining draws and the Aman-Janu hospitality cluster as the brand-elevation context. Entry conditions are at the top of the Tokyo market. Traffic skews international and high-net-worth domestic, with longer dwell times than central Tokyo retail averages. Azabudai Hills works for brands positioning around wellness, design, craft, or contemporary art adjacency, and as the natural Tokyo target for global luxury and lifestyle houses launching in Japan post-2023.