Palaceside Building appears in the April issue of Nojuru, a magazine from the JTB group (photo above is the page; lower right is the cover).
The magazine’s concept is “a magazine of travel and living discoveries from the 50s on.” The April special, “Tokyo–Kanda Time
Travel,” has a feature by columnist Asato Izumi, “Jingu Gaien → Yoyogi → Kitanomaru: looking back at 1960s prosperity,” a walking piece that starts at the National Stadium and looks at buildings. Stops at restaurants along the way are part of the pleasure, and several shops are introduced.
Palaceside Building is the last stop on Izumi’s “time travel.” After Jingu he takes the subway from Shibuya to Kudanshita. “The area around Kitanomaru Park is a treasury of notable buildings from the Showa 30s–40s,” he writes, passing Nippon Budokan, the Science Museum and the National Museum of Modern Art (all with photos) before arriving here. “One of the finest postwar office buildings. Look at the highly wrought design inside and out,” he says, and of the seemingly floating “Dream Stairs” down to B1 (photo at lower left) he writes: “The mesh handrail of combined stainless wires is interesting. Though an industrial product, it has the air of a craft
object” — high praise.
The appointed restaurant is Akasaka Hanten on B1. “The famous tantanmen may taste even better if you finish it quickly among the many newspaper reporters in this building,” he writes. Hmm — is it tastier with reporters? Perhaps that is a trade sensibility.