Since it was established in 1989 as a complex cultural facilities, it has become the cultural hub of Shibuya Bunkamura. The planning stage plays a central role from, Tanaka Chin彦's to his vice-president of Tokyubunkamura Co., Ltd. is now, I heard about the circumstances and Shibuya transition of Bunkamura establishment.

(※) here is the interview of October 2006. Tanaka Chin彦 san, since 2007, has been appointed to Tokyubunkamura President Corporation.

- Can you tell me the encounter of Tanaka-san and Shibuya.

By the time college students, he had come well to play. However, rather than to have been spent much in Shibuya, I will not call it "Ten遊 (Ten'yu)", I I was playing around a point in every town. For example, when you want to listen to jazz, now visited the jazz cafe called "duet" of Dogenzaka that had collapsed, the full house if hundred hotels shop looking through the "dig" and "Oscar", Shibuya Stop it Shinjuku if there is also no good stretch your feet on the jazz cafe. In other words, it it was a style of play at the point around a variety of town. Point in the sense that there was a lot, it was a Shibuya attractive at the time.

- So also the city other than Shibuya it I was around a lot.

So I went to Waseda University, I was often able to play in Shinjuku from Shibuya. Shinjuku at the time was a good town if you are unfussy calm than it is now. But it probably is Roppongi was the most visited. In When I was still running a streetcar, the time the store to play a student with no money I was small, but there is a store, such as the bistro referred to in the now opposite the Goto flower shop, I was there to hangout . Roppongi is not also be crowded with students such as Shinjuku and Shibuya, but it was a valuable city for me, begins construction rush from the front of the Olympic Games in Tokyo in 1964, the highway passes through, also started underground construction It has been. So because I have become noisy, I came away in Harajuku (laughs). Harajuku is also a large difference between the now, and look at the direction of Aoyama Street from around the inner park, green tree-lined followed I saw along the gentle slope. I had called "drive-in", certainly there is a restaurant named "Franks", where born you remember that drank for the first time American coffee.

- So you've been staring at all the way the evolution of the city.

It will be such a thing. Past It was not connected it is between the point and the point as of now, because not even been presented like a play by marketing, was not only play at the point. So So it becomes "Ten遊" as in the previous story. It is, and we are gradually town formation, because human beings are those selfish, I would to the city to the "disposable" When the play is changed. That kind of example we have seen in a variety of town. With the example of Shibuya, but once is Dogenzaka was the center, it were moving into the center street and Koen-dori. I'm occur as crustal movement in the town such change. In terms of personal preference, but there are places and shops you want to go to Daikanyama, you have to around now of Shibuya Station is no longer E has a previous point like. In Shibuya the city large scale even compared to such as Roppongi, but I do not think that the whole town would be abandoned because will place different be abandoned there location is noted, the entire town is more attractive it is good when it comes to the basis.

Orchard Hall

- After graduating from college, what did you entered the Tokyu Group in history.

After graduation, he worked in television production unit about two years. There, or rather was the beginning of the mistake that had quit without thinking too deeply ... (laughs). After that, it had been the work of the early entertainment relationship the band activities and management, regular job that regular job did not have. When I was a 31-year-old had sent such a life, I'm all of a sudden, I was suffering from a kidney. In a terrible state of immediate hospitalization After receiving a urine test at the hospital, temporarily I life was also threatened. Since the thing there was a time in the hospital, it was again considered a life. And, it did re-confirmed that I was aiming for the producer. After discharge from hospital, make a plan on their own, went into the production of advertising relationship that it can be in the form. And I had called out to the Tokyu Agency when the 34-year-old is the encounter with the Tokyu Group.

Became involved in the work of --Bunkamura is, what time is time.

Bunkamura will open in 1989, but now Transferred to start a development plan in 1984 of the five years ago. Shibuya, is referred to as the three major sub-center along with Shinjuku, Ikebukuro, despite the achieved first in development among them, had been the most re-development is delayed. With that in mind, in the Tokyu Group to develop a re-development plan of Shibuya, it's there was a plan of the Bunkamura as one of its plan. As a concept in the broad sense was to provide a cultural base in Shibuya, but it is very different to say that culture to bite. So, music as the greatest common divisor cultural, and to cover the pictures and art, was examined whether those how-intensive to. It was a discussion of Ken Ken jerky in-house. Because after all it is different from the classic just music to folk music. Eventually, in centered on music was divided into two "acoustic", "electric", has launched a direction in which the symbiosis them. And, orchestras and opera, such as the Valley co-star further orchestra, acoustic music is staged in Orchard Hall, work such as fused music and video and theater is the concept it was finished that staged in Theatre Cocoon.

- Do you think of how the current Shibuya of the city.

Earlier, we are told to have been Ten遊, since I was able to Shibuya Parco, now the word "migration" is used. But now I feel that or not is has become to "Choku遊". Because, some of the customers who would come to the Bunkamura is to go straight to the Bunkamura from the station, enjoy the paintings and concerts, because the people that are bounce drinking tea in the facility is not a few. Such a reality, such as the owner's and shops officials of buildings come from the old days in Shibuya, and everyone to form a Shibuya of the city, I think you have to re-staring.

- Do you have a message to the Shibuya of the city of the future.

To change the city, it requires a dynamic approach. For example, in the development of the United States of Lincoln Center, originally the Rockefeller Foundation in the area was a slum was successful to put the hand. Even lurking not dirty or dangerous to the city of New York, Giuliani former mayor has been redesigned to promote the large-scale reforms. Even when considering the future of Shibuya, I think that it must not be forgotten that with so the dynamic point of view. In addition, it might need someone to take the leadership, nothing proceeds in ambiguous subject, such as "In the whole city." So far in Shibuya is a good example, which has been developed by each individual. However, it does not necessarily continue in the same manner as in the development in the future. Current of Shibuya, I think that it has come at a time when thinking about the future and sit down.

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Tanaka Chin彦 (Tanaka Uzuhiko) Mr.
1940 Born in Tokyo. The first Faculty of Letters graduated from Waseda University. He joined Tokyu Agency in 1974. In 1984, at the same time as the start of the Bunkamura development plan, and Transferred to the Tokyu department store, in 1988 he became a director at the same time as the establishment Tokyubunkamura. Appointed to the company's vice-president in 2001.

Theatre Cocoon

Bunkamura1989 was born in Japan's first large-scale complex cultural facilities. "Announcement of place" to provide and create a culture of good quality, "the creation of a place" for the development of a new culture, people, art, three of the "meeting place" to promote the exchange of goods on the concept, concert carry out the performances of such and the Opera and Ballet "Orchard Hall", theater, concerts, theater "Theatre Cocoon" such as contemporary dance, culture, such as the screening of the classic film of the overseas "Le cinema", Museum of Art "the Museum" It is composed of art facilities. The first floor of the cafe-restaurant on the ground floor and the basement, "de Mago Paris" was opened as the first overseas business alliance shop of "de Mago" of Paris. Bunkamura