Harumi Futō is located in Harumi (晴海), an island district of Chūō, Tokyo (central Tokyo). 'Harumi' may mean sunny, spring or beauty, while 'futō' (埠頭) refers to coastline or pier. The harbour pier supports Harumi Terminal Park which berths cruise ships, and was part of an urban redevelopment project site associated with the 2020 Olympic Village.
Neighbourhood
The locale was created as land reclamation from seabed fill.
The site was the intended place for an international exposition planned to coincide with the later-cancelled 1940 Summer Olympics. Helsinki, Finland, eventually hosted the 1952 Summer Olympics and Tokyo, the 1964 Summer Olympics.
The six-story Harumi Passenger Terminal was opened in 1991 for the fiftieth anniversary of the opening of the Port of Tokyo. The terminal building has an observation deck.
Harumifuto Park has a statue, with views to the large artificial island of Odaiba, and the Rainbow Bridge.
The area is serviced by the Kachidoki Station (勝どき駅 Kachidoki-eki) subway station (E17) on the Toei Oedo Line, and the Shijō-mae Station (市場前駅, Shijōmae-eki) subway station (U14) on the Yurikamome Line.
By August 2022, the former Olympic and Paralympic Village site became known as 'Harumi Flag', Tokyo's largest public-private housing development.
Olympic Games 2020 Village
Determined as the site for an Olympic Village to accommodate competitors, team staff, and sports officials, it hosted up to 10,000 Olympic and 4,000 Paralympic athletes. The Harumi 5-chōme neighbourhood complex was closed to the public during the two events. At least one Paralympic sport accommodated the sports officials separate to the Village (and satellite villages) due to commuting delay concerns to the sporting venue.
The Village could cater for about 2000 visiting guests and media, and 8000 Games staff, per day. The athletes village mayor was 84-year-old Olympian and former Japan Football Association president Saburo Kawabuchi.
The Village formed the centre of an 'infinity' symbol between the 'Heritage' and 'Tokyo Bay' themed competition zones. Twenty-one residential buildings were built, totalling 5,650 units. Buildings ranged from 14 to 18 stories, total costing estimated to be ¥207 billion (about 2 billion USD). It had three types of apartments:
apartments to house four athletes; apartments to house seven people; apartments to house eight people, with three bathrooms.
Beds were constructed out of cardboard, holding a weight up to . Supplying 18,000 bed for the Olympic Games and 8,000 beds for the Paralympic Games, the beds and mattresses were to be recycled into other products after the events.
Part of the Village included a food hall. Following a contest of over 700 submitted recipes and as part of a Japanese flavour, additional to other provided menus, athletes could select one of five special dishes involving cold sōmen noodles, oden served as a chilled soup, Hokkaido's zangi deep-fried salmon, a toasted bread, and dessert ' de panna cotta' from north-eastern Japan.
Self-driving buses, such as the Toyota e-Palette, were used for predetermined routes around the Village. On 26 August 2021 one vehicle was alleged to have injured a judo Paralympian, causing the athlete to withdraw from competition.
Some of the units were to be sold post-events to establish a new community as part of 'model plan of the after-use of the Olympic Village/Paralympic Village', more than 4000 condominiums with city views, some to be priced at ¥170 million (€1.4 million). Two fifty-story residential skyscrapers were to be built post-event, resulting a total of twenty-three tower blocks. A school and fire station were also later planned.
There were two satellite villages: Sailing Village: Ōiso Prince Hotel, Ōiso-machi, Kanagawa Prefecture, for competitions at Enoshima Yacht Harbour; Cycling Village: Laforet Shuzenji, Izu, Shizuoka, for competitions at Izu Velodrome.
Village plaza
Within the Village was a plaza with a general store, café, and media centre. Operation BATON (Building Athletes' Village with Timber Of the Nation) saw the plaza structure made of 40,000 pieces of donated wood to demonstrate sustainability, and later the woods were to be returned to municipalities for reuse in local facilities.
Coronavirus responses
As part of the COVID-19 response, a taskforce planned to reduce the impact on Chūō ward’s public health centre by establishing a special health facility dedicated to infectious diseases; separate to mandatory testing including body temperatures, and using Japan's 'COCOA' (COntact-COnfirming Application) contact tracing mobile app.