Building naming

When we were expecting our first baby I bought a book called 10,001 baby names. For most high rise buildings here in Tokyo the owners (or whoever stick a name to the building) seem to have a list of 5 or 6 words that they then add the location of the building.

The words are:

Garden

Hill(s)

Park

Tower

City

Throw these words in a pot and you get:

Akasaka Garden City

Park Axis Aoyama 1-chome Tower

Roppongi Hills

Atago Green Hills

How very unoriginal. The list could go on for ever it seems. 4-5 story buildings are called Towers, and grey concrete buildings called Park or Garden.
Interestingly enough, sometimes a building is called after a location where it is not even build on.

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