Riverwalk Kitakyūshū

Riverwalk Kitakyushu (リバーウォーク北九州, Ribāwōku Kitakyūshū) is a prestigious shopping centre near the Murasaki river and Kokura Castle in Kokura Kita ward, Kitakyushu, Japan.

It includes theatres, restaurants, a multiplex cinema, NHK studios, the head offices of Zenrin Co. and the Asahi Shimbun (West area), and a branch of the Kitakyushu city art museum.

The design is composed of five contrasting geometrical shapes in five colours (yellow, red, white, brown and black) to break the massive complex into acceptable proportions.

On the 14th floor of the Zenrin-Asahi Shinbun building is the Zenrin map museum.

The next stage is the construction of the new 11-story Kokura campus of Nishinippon Institute of Technology which will contain the design faculty, and a four-story Toyota Lexus showroom.

Riverwalk Kitakyushu and the Kokura castle moat
East side of Riverwalk building
The NHK building (brown) and Zenrin-Asahi Shinbun building (black)