*Location:

   Sun Plaza
   Road 420, north of Chu Line railway
     station at Nakano
   Tokyo, Japan
   LL: N 35.70702, E 139.66488

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*Contact:

   (unknown)

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Number of bells estimated from photos.
   Located in front of Nakano Sun Plaza
   building, which will soon be replaced.

*Technical data:

   Electric-automatic carillon of 38 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   Transposition is not applicable
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   The whole instrument was installed in unknown year
     with bells made by an unknown maker 
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 2025

The English Wikipedia article on the Nakano Sunplaza building has a photo which places this freestanding clocktower in context, but it is not mentioned in the text.  Similar photos can be found in the related Wikimedia Commons category.

A soundless and fast-panning YouTube video clip views the bell tower and its surroundings from multiple perspectives.  The English captioning includes some description of it.

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of unknown bellfoundries, in this region and in the world.

Ranking among all Asia & Pacific Rim non-traditional carillons by pitch (weight).
Ranking among all Asia & Pacific Rim non-traditional carillons by size (number of bells).
Ranking among all Asia & Pacific Rim non-traditional carillons by year of completion.

Index to all tower bell instruments in Japan.

   This page was built from the database on  1-Aug-25
   based on textual data last updated on 2025/07/30
   and on technical data last updated on 2025/07/30