Japan’s first integrated resort development, MGM Osaka, will feature a 27-story tower as its centerpiece attraction plus a casino covering 23,293 square meters and featuring around about 470 gaming tables games and 6,400 electronic gaming machines, according to details contained in an architectural document.
The document, obtained by locals news outlet The Yomiuri Shimbun with information published across its Japanese and English-language channels, provides more color to details already released by the MGM-ORIX consortium that is developing the near US$10 billion IR on Osaka’s Yumeshima Island.
The 27-story, 126-meter-high main building – which also includes one basement level – will, according to the report, form an arc “reminiscent of the Bellagio” in Las Vegas and contain two hotels with a combined 1,840 rooms.
Another section covering 16.7 hectares and standing four stories or 27 meters high will feature the property’s main MICE facilities plus parking.
A third “resort hotel” featuring 660 rooms will stand 56 meters high and boast 13 above-ground floors and one basement level, the report adds. It will also include studios where visitors can try activities such as a tea ceremony.
MGM, the only operator to be approved by Japan’s central government to develop an IR with casino gaming, broke ground on MGM Osaka in April, although land preparatory works began in late 2023.
Once complete in 2030, as per the current timeline, the property will feature 2,500 hotel rooms across three hotel brands, 730,000 square feet of MICE space and tourism facilities to showcase the best of Osaka and Japan, according to previously released information.
The consortium building MGM Osaka counts MGM Resorts and local partner ORIX as its major investors with around a 40% interest each, alongside 22 minority shareholders.
MGM last year named Steve Zanella, one of the company’s long-time Las Vegas executives, as its new President and COO of Japan Operations.
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