Quiet Streets, Monumental House — Aobadai

① Property Highlights
There is a category of residence in Tokyo that is not built to a floor plan. It is built to a vision — and this is one of them. Conceived by Archsite Mebius and constructed by Takenaka Corporation, completed March 2003, this is architecture as sculpture: cantilevered concrete forms, full-height glass walls, and a sense of volume that a conventional Tokyo house was never designed to hold.

The property sits on 1,072.88 sqm of freehold land — a rare triple-frontage plot, bordered by public roads on three sides — with a total floor area of 1,187.01 sqm across steel-reinforced concrete construction: two floors below ground, two above, beneath a flat roof. Zoned Category 1 Low-Rise Exclusive Residential — Meguro-ku’s most protected classification, guaranteeing the low-density, light-filled character of the surrounding streets in perpetuity.

Inside, the residence unfolds with the logic of a private institution rather than a home. A double-height living room, anchored by a sculptural fireplace, opens to full-height glazing. A dedicated home theater. A glass-walled atrium staircase connects the levels beneath a soaring skylight. Below ground, a vast concrete hall — column-free, event-scaled — accommodates private collections, vehicles, or entertaining at a magnitude few residences in Tokyo can offer. And above it all, a rooftop terrace with a private jacuzzi, looking out across the treetops of Meguro toward the Tokyo skyline.

1,072.88 sqm of land. 1,187.01 sqm of building. Freehold. Meguro-ku. ¥7,000,000,000.

This is not a house that was designed to be lived in quietly. It was designed to be inhabited fully.

② The Neighbourhood
Aobadai occupies the high ground between Daikanyama and Nakameguro — two of Tokyo’s most internationally recognised residential and lifestyle districts — without belonging entirely to either. It is quieter than both, held within a designated low-rise residential zone that has kept the neighbourhood’s tree-lined streets and detached houses largely unchanged for decades.

Daikanyama and Nakameguro Stations, on the Tokyu Toyoko Line, are thirteen minutes on foot. Ikejiri-Ohashi Station, on the Tokyu Den-en-toshi Line, is sixteen minutes. Shibuya Station is sixteen minutes on foot, or considerably faster by rail — placing the residence within easy reach of central Tokyo while remaining entirely removed from it.

③ Why TonTon
This is the kind of asset that does not reach the open market through conventional channels. As the exclusive Japan licensee of Forbes Global Properties, TonTon operates at the precise intersection of deep local knowledge and a truly global network — giving our clients access not only to properties of this nature, but to the discretion, due diligence, and cross-border expertise that a transaction of this significance demands.

Our advisory team brings together backgrounds in international finance, Japanese property law, and cross-border transaction management — fluent at a native level in Japanese, English, Mandarin, Hindi, and Korean. From corporate structure establishment and tax advisory coordination to post-acquisition asset management, we provide end-to-end support across the full acquisition journey.

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