Tokyo's city government is selling its governor's residence, which has been lying empty for years, hoping to raise tens of millions of dollars for local government coffers.
The four-bedroom house, complete with meeting rooms and emergency communications centre, is set on more than 20,000 square metres (215,300 sq ft) of land in an upmarket area of Shibuya in central Tokyo, the Yomiuri newspaper said on Saturday.
Rebuilt at a cost of 1.2 billion yen ($11.22 million) in 1997, it was occupied by the then governor for less than two years. Current governor Shintaro Ishihara refused to move in when he was elected, saying he could not relax there, the paper said.
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