Tokyo Tower

Tokyo Tower by day

Tokyo Tower is a tower in Shiba Park, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan.

Tokyo Tower is 333 m (1093 ft) tall. It the world's highest self-supporting steel tower and the tallest structure in Tokyo.

The highest number of visitors was about 5.2 million a year (1959), about 710 thousand a month (1959.8), about 40 thousand a day (1960.3.30).

The cost for lighting is about 24 thousand yen to 25 thousand yen a day. It seems to be two-tone of red and white, but actually the colors are international orange and white. The color cannot be changed to other colors because the color is decided by the law.

In 2009, the Tokyo Tower was recognized as one of the 100 Landscapes of Japan which best show contemporary Japan and its culture in the Heisei period.

Tokyo Tower Media

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  The Special Observatory located directly below the tower's digital television broadcasting equipment

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  Looking down from the glass-flooring at the Tokyo Tower

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  Base of en:Tokyo Tower in en:Minato, Tokyo

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  A Shinto shrine is located on the second floor of the Main Observatory.

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  Tokyo Tower in January 2011 with the Tokyo Skytree under construction in the background

• Motion around Tokyo Tower at night, 2019

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  Tokyo Tower, with Shiodome in the background

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  The tower's original lighting arrangement, used until 1989

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  Shinkōin and the base of Tokyo Tower

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  Aerial view on Shiba-koen at dusk