Tokyo Opera City Tower (東京オペラシティ, Tōkyō Opera Shiti?) is a skyscraper located in Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan. Completed in 1996, it stands 234 metres (768 feet) high and has 54 floors; it is the third-tallest building in Shinjuku and seventh-tallest in Tokyo. The closest train station to Opera City is Hatsudai.
The building houses the New National Theater in its lower levels. The fifth through fifty-second floors are devoted to office space; the building's best-known tenants are NTT East Corp., Microsoft Corp. and Apple Inc.
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—Jean François Lyotard (b. 1924)
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