Aman Residences Tokyo by Yabu Pushelberg: A Quiet Crown Above Azabudai Hills
A retreat at the top of Tokyo
Aman Residences Tokyo crowns the Mori JP Tower in Azabudai Hills, a new urban district conceived around cultural activity, landscape and everyday life. Yabu Pushelberg developed the interior design for this first Aman branded residential offering in Tokyo, translating the sense of seclusion associated with Aman's hospitality into a permanent home environment. The project's extreme height is not simply a statement of status: it becomes a reason to explore the relationship between urban intensity and calm.
The tower stands within a wider village-like development. Its elevated private rooms and communal amenities therefore have a double role, providing refuge from the city while connecting residents with a larger community. The design addresses that contrast through careful pacing, changing views and materials associated with Japanese craft.
Land, sea and sky as a narrative
Yabu Pushelberg describes the concept through land, sea and sky, elements that recur in Japanese thinking about landscape. These are not represented through literal scenic decoration. Instead, they help guide decisions about atmosphere: a gradual movement from dense urban surroundings toward rooms that feel serene, grounded and open to the horizon.
The studio sought a vocabulary of luxury grounded in local sensibilities without copying historic Japanese interiors. Restrained detail, long visual axes and tactile surfaces establish a sense of belonging, while furniture and joinery support the everyday habits of people who live in the space over years.
Arrival as a transition
In a residential tower, arrival can be a compressed and impersonal procedure. Here, Yabu Pushelberg treats the transition from street to residence as part of the architectural experience. The official gallery includes an arrival and pickup environment, signalling how the first encounter with the property is conceived as carefully as the rooms at the top.
The sequence aims to slow the pace of movement and quiet the visual intensity of the city. The shift is expressed through proportions, controlled views and thoughtfully selected finishes rather than through excessive decoration.
A library that feels domestic
Communal rooms include a library and adjoining lounges. In the official portfolio, these spaces are shown as connected yet distinct, offering residents opportunities to read, work or meet informally. Their relationship illustrates a residential interpretation of hospitality: shared facilities are designed at an intimate human scale, not as a vast anonymous hotel lobby.
Furniture and lighting help distinguish reading, conversation and passage. Long views maintain a sense of openness, while smaller groups of seating allow different degrees of privacy. This balance is essential to a building in which the most public amenities are still part of a private residential world.
Private dining and gathering
The photographs also document rooms for private dining and celebration, along with transitions from the lounges to these destinations. Rather than requiring residents to adapt one large multipurpose room to every occasion, the plan offers settings with different atmospheres. Social life can be lively or restrained within the same coherent interior language.
Custom furniture, selected artwork and carefully managed illumination connect these rooms with the broader design. The programme suggests a home expanded through shared places, allowing residents to host events without abandoning the intimacy of a considered domestic environment.
Art as an active part of the design
Art advisory is central to the commission. The practice developed a programme encompassing sculpture, painting, photography and calligraphy, drawing on different artists and approaches to making. Its official account includes a monumental boulder-like artwork by Shinichi Sawada, conceived as a poetic contrast between the physical weight of earth and the experience of being high above Tokyo.
The collection is more than a series of decorative objects. By working across interiors and art, the studio gives otherwise familiar communal areas a narrative rooted in natural forms, craftsmanship and perception. The artwork helps make shared space feel particular to its residents and setting.
Wellness high above the city
The published gallery documents a wellness pool and spa environments. Water and controlled light bring another rhythm to the building, encouraging stillness away from the activity of the metropolis. These rooms support a wider vision of residential luxury based on rest and everyday wellbeing, rather than on views and exclusivity alone.
The pool is treated as an architectural interior in its own right. Its relation to enclosure and light complements the project's theme of natural elements, making water a physical experience as well as a conceptual reference.
Craft rather than decorative cliché
The practice describes its material approach through tactile woods, stone that absorbs and holds shadow, and precise joinery. Small decisions about transitions and the way a surface meets another become more important than applied motifs. The result is intended to feel modern without severing the connection to Japanese ways of using space.
The interiors also draw on contemporary expectations of comfort. Softness, ease of circulation and useful shared amenities are integrated with architectural restraint, giving the project a vocabulary that is both international and rooted in its place.
The distinction from Aman Tokyo hotel
Aman Residences Tokyo is not the Aman Tokyo hotel. The nine images chosen for this article originate in Yabu Pushelberg's dedicated residential project gallery and name the communal facilities photographed. No unrelated hotel guestrooms or restaurant images have been inserted to enlarge the photo count.
This is an unpublished editorial record. The individual photographers are not identified on the source page and the rights to publish those images still require confirmation, despite their verified project origin.
Project information and photography
Project: Aman Residences Tokyo, upper levels of the Mori JP Tower, Azabudai Hills, Tokyo, Japan. Interior design, styling, art advisory and bespoke objects: Yabu Pushelberg. Developer: Mori Building. Brand: Aman. Tower architect: Pelli Clarke & Partners. Project year: 2023. Nine authentic official project-gallery photographs showing arrival, communal library, lounge, dining, party room, courtyard and spa are incorporated. Photographer identities and public reproduction rights require clearance.
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