NEWoMan Shinjuku, Tokyo

Why you should experience NEWoMan Shinjuku in Tokyo, Japan.

NEWoMan Shinjuku is a vertically layered commercial destination where Sendagaya's southern edge meets one of Tokyo's most intricate railway environments through terraces, elevated walkways, glass-fronted interiors and direct connections spanning both sides of the station threshold.

Set above Shinjuku Station's New South Exit near Koshu Kaido and just steps from the pedestrian decks extending toward Takashimaya Times Square, the complex disperses its public areas across a tower, station concourse and structures built directly over the railway tracks. Retail floors shift into restaurants, planted terraces and elevated outdoor areas, giving circulation a sequence of interior and exterior conditions rarely compressed into a single station complex. Long windows and open decks expose trains, platforms and the surrounding skyline at several elevations, keeping the immense transportation system beneath the building continuously present. The result is a commercial complex where shopping, dining, outdoor space and railway movement become interconnected parts of exploring the southern side of Shinjuku Station.

What you should know about NEWoMan Shinjuku.

NEWoMan Shinjuku is best known for forming the principal commercial component of JR Shinjuku Miraina Tower, the 170-meter redevelopment that replaced the former New South Exit station building and reorganized a substantial portion of Shinjuku Station's southern edge. JR East completed the tower in March 2016 with offices extending from the fifth through thirty-second floors and NEWoMan distributed across six tower floors, the New South Exit concourse and three levels constructed over the railway tracks, including rooftop areas. Lumine developed NEWoMan as a new brand separate from its established LUMINE centers, extending the company beyond a conventional station retail format through food, fashion, wellness, childcare, outdoor areas and cultural programming. Approximately 100 shops were planned across 5,600 square meters in the tower and another 2,000 square meters above the tracks, with the commercial areas introduced in phases beginning March 25, 2016. JR East integrated the development with the wider reconstruction of Shinjuku Station's south side, placing commercial floors beside offices, a clinic, nursery, outdoor plaza and rooftop garden within the completed complex. The project consequently turned railway air rights and the former station-building ground into a vertically integrated destination spanning transportation, commerce, workplace functions and public space.

LUMINE 0 gave the development a dedicated mechanism for cultural programming outside the conventional shop-floor model. Located on NEWoMan's fifth floor, the 500-square-meter hall was conceived for exhibitions, fashion shows, performances, presentations and other changing programs, with movable seating supporting multiple configurations. Its inaugural program began on March 25, 2016 with OUTBOX, an exhibition devoted to French artist and filmmaker Enki Bilal organized by Chanel and Lumine after an earlier presentation at Chanel Nexus Hall. Lumine subsequently used the venue for projects spanning art, design and fashion, including the LUMINE ART FAIR, whose 2024 edition assembled works by 30 emerging artists around the premise of encouraging first-time private collecting. The hall also became a venue for corporate and technological presentations, including JR East Startup Program events connecting emerging companies with the railway group. LUMINE 0 extended NEWoMan's commercial program into a recurring platform for exhibitions, creative production and public events, establishing cultural programming as a permanent function inside the station development.

How to fold NEWoMan Shinjuku into your trip.

NEWoMan Shinjuku works as the anchor for a daytime progression through Edo post-town religion, Meiji horticultural experimentation and the institutional preservation of Tokyo firefighting history across the eastern side of Shinjuku.

Begin at Taisoji Temple, whose origins reach to a hermitage established by the monk Taiso around 1596 before the death of Naito Masakatsu in 1629 established the temple as the burial ground of successive generations of the Naito family. Growth of Naito Shinjuku as a Koshu Kaido post town brought worshippers to the precinct, where surviving cultural properties now include one of the Edo Six Jizo bronze statues, an Enma figure, Datsueba figure, Christian lantern and objects excavated from Naito family graves; wartime bombing severely damaged the complex in 1945. Continue to Shinjuku Gyoen, where the Meiji government established the 58.3-hectare Naito Shinjuku Experimental Station in 1872 on former Naito estate ground and cultivated 3,000 varieties of fruits and vegetables alongside research into sericulture and livestock. Horticulturist Hayato Fukuba later studied in France and Germany, directed the Imperial Botanical Garden and commissioned Versailles horticultural professor Henri Martinet in 1900 to prepare a new garden plan; five years of reconstruction produced the 1906 layout underlying the present garden. Conclude at Fire Museum, where the Tokyo Fire Department opened its Fire and Disaster Prevention Information Center on December 3, 1992 and assembled more than 12,000 objects spanning Edo firefighting through contemporary emergency services. Edo-period picture scrolls, ukiyo-e, broadsheets and hand-operated equipment lead into Meiji and later fire pumps, protective clothing, classic engines and full-size emergency vehicles, preserving technological change across several centuries of metropolitan fire protection. The progression moves through Taisoji's relationship with the Naito family and post-town Shinjuku, Hayato Fukuba and Henri Martinet's creation of a modern horticultural landscape and the Fire Museum's preservation of metropolitan emergency technology, carrying the district across religious, scientific and civic institutions.

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