Urawa Verde Toho

The Urawa Verde Toho opened as a twin in 1985 on the fourth floor of the fashion building known as Verde Urawa, which was built by its landowner, Ginji Land, in 1978.

In 1989, most of the tenants had withdrawn from Verde Urawa by the previous year, and on October 1st of the same year, the “Yuzawaya Urawa Store” opened on the 1st to 3rd floors of the Urawa Chuo Building. Later on, most of the sales floors (except for the basement floor where a McDonald’s was located) and the main building became Yuzawaya, and the name “Verde Urawa” was no longer used.

Ginji Land later built a six-story building to the southwest side of the building (near Prefectural Office Street) in 1997, and the theater moved to the third to fifth floors of the addition (Yuzawaya expanded the first and second floors). There was one screen per floor, for a total of three screens, housing 356 seats in total. The old theater was renovated and returned to its normal sales floor, and Yuzawaya expanded its sales floor.

As a Toho-affiliated cinema in the old city of Urawa, it screened many hit films, but in 1998, the year after the new building and relocation, the Urawa Station East Exit Area Type 2 Urban Redevelopment Project (now Stream Building ) was decided, which also includes the multiplex boom, leaving the Toho very inevitable.

Last operated by the Toho East Japan Entertainment Company, the triplex closed on July 13, 2007. That same year, the redevelopment project for the east exit of Urawa Station was finally realized, three years behind schedule, with the opening of the nearby Urawa Parco and the United Cinemas Urawa, resulting in the closure of the theater three months before the opening of the new facilities.

After closure, some floors were renovated and the handicraft school “Yuzawaya Art Academy” moved there from a nearby building, but on August 31, 2010, Yuzawaya itself ceased operations at the same location, and all tenants withdrew from the Urawa Chuo Building, and Yuzawaya moved to Urawa Parco in the Stream Building. In 2011, the land was sold by Ginji Land to Sumitomo Realty & Development, and the entire building, including the extension, was demolished. A condominium known as City House Urawa Takasago was built on the site which completed in 2014.

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