【世界トップの駅工事】新宿駅も激変！抉れた地中に架かる橋？…池袋駅も大工事に突入！【後編】｜2026/8最新

What is the current status of the large-scale redevelopment projects underway at Shinjuku and Ikebukuro stations as of August 2026? At Shinjuku Station's west exit, construction is progressing on the Odakyu Line's above-ground platforms and the former Odakyu Department Store site, while the completion date for the skyscraper in the south district remains "undetermined." Furthermore, large-scale redevelopment, including the Tobu Department Store, has begun at Ikebukuro Station's west exit. This article, the second in a series tracking major station construction projects in Shinjuku, Shibuya, and Ikebukuro, provides a detailed on-site report of the latest developments at Shinjuku and Ikebukuro stations as of August 2026. At Shinjuku Station, we investigate the progress of the west exit redevelopment, construction using traveler cranes, and the former Odakyu Department Store site, examining how the station is changing! In addition, plans are underway to extend the platforms at the underground Keio Line Shinjuku Station by approximately 25 meters. Meanwhile, in the Shinjuku Station South District, a 37-story, approximately 225-meter-tall skyscraper is planned, but its completion date, originally scheduled for fiscal year 2028, remains "undetermined." Construction in the North District is planned to begin after the completion of the South District, but specific start and completion dates have not been indicated. At Ikebukuro Station West Exit, Tobu Railway has provisionally selected the contractor for the district it will be constructing as part of the "Ikebukuro Station West Exit Urban Redevelopment Project." Completion has been delayed by five years to fiscal year 2048. "Where construction is progressing" and "where plans have become uncertain." What is the situation at Shinjuku Station and Ikebukuro Station as of August 2026? Please read to the end. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ■ Chapters ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 00:00 Opening 00:48 Current Status of Odakyu Shinjuku Station West Exit Redevelopment: Traveler Crane and Former Mosaic Street 02:30 Overview of Shinjuku Station Redevelopment 10:22 Shinjuku Future Gallery 11:55 Current Status of the Former Odakyu Department Store Site: Shinjuku Station's "Bridge" Passageway 13:40 Keio Line Shinjuku Station Extension Plan 15:27 What Will Happen to the South and North Districts of Shinjuku Station? 17:06 Ikebukuro Station West Exit Redevelopment and Latest Status 22:20 Ending ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ■ Related Videos ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ We have also released a video of us visiting all of the approximately 170 exits at Shinjuku Station. Compare Shinjuku Station before the construction and its current state. [Shinjuku Station] We visited all the underground passage exits and collected the labyrinthine elements [Brutal] ■ Station Strategy 100 【新宿駅】地下通路の出口すべて周って迷宮要素を集めた【鬼畜】■駅攻略100 Part 1 is here: Shibuya Station has changed so much! A Thorough Explanation of the Latest Redevelopment Status, New Ticket Gates, and Changing Platforms [Part 1] | August 2026 Update 【世界トップの駅工事】渋谷駅がここまで変わった！再開発の最新状況・新改札・変わるホー... ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ■ About the Channel ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ a0, a former station employee and current SE, introduces railway and station construction, convenient transfer methods, station trivia, travel, and more, along with narration by nonkyuru. We deliver videos that can be enjoyed not only by railway fans, but also by anyone interested in the changes in stations and cities. Please subscribe to the channel and turn on notifications! #ShinjukuStation #IkebukuroStation #Redevelopment #Railway #StationConstruction nonkyuru's YouTube Channel @nonkyuru