LaQua Destination Spa
Mixed-Use Spa, Recreation, and Themed Entertainment Facility
Redevelopment Project Analysis
Ideation and Product Concepting
Guest End-User (Patron/Customer/Shopper) Programming
Tokyo Prefecture, JAPAN USA
Alternative Big Ideas, related guest programming, and creative treatments were prepared for various redevelopment schemes at Korakuen Amusement Park.
First phases of redevelopment resulting from this consulting effort have included the creation of LaQua, an indoor spa complex with real hot spring water, which opened to the public in 2003. LaQua is now a highly popular relaxation oasis in the center of busy Tokyo Prefecture, featuring real hot spring pools, saunas, relaxation space and various massage and beauty services. The hot spring water is brought to the surface from a depth of more than one kilometer.
Tokyo Dome City is a leisure complex in central Tokyo comprised of Tokyo Dome baseball stadium, an amusement park, the LaQua spa, a variety of shops and restaurants and Tokyo Dome Hotel. At one time the amusement complex was known as Korakuen, named after the former baseball stadium, which itself was named after a nearby Japanese landscape garden.
Client: Tokyo Dome Corporation, for Hillwood Development in association with Gensler Architects
