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No.47 Tokyo Tower

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Tokyo Tower which was seen from the World Trade Center building



There will are not a person who doesn't know Tokyo Tower. It is a land mark in Tokyo.
Tokyo Tower which was complete in 1958, the original purpose are the general electric wave tower to transfer the electric wave of the TV and the radio, business wireless and so on to 1 yen of Kanto. The itself frankness of the owner in Tokyo Tower, too, "Japanese electric wave tower Inc." The height is 333 m, and as the independent steel tower, there is a big observatory in the world 1, 150 m and there is a special observatory in 250 m.


Tokyo Tower which was looked at from below

The Tokyo Tower building exists under Tokyo Tower and there are a gift shop and shopping quarters, a wax doll building, an aquarium, a trick art gallery and so on. It doesn't make think that it will go specially to Tokyo Tower which is made not to be uncommon existence with these facilities becoming an image in the present Tokyo Tower badly, too, well, too. "DATUTE" of the person who doesn't live in Tokyo, will be without thinking that it will go to Tokyo Tower three times twice specially except the person who comes to the first time Tokyo. It is degrees such as going to make climb a child. The cause is indeed simply "the obsolescence", this word at this Tokyo Tower building. It is the atmosphere of doing the 30s just as it is. It is possessed with the illusion as it time-travelled before which is distant from the fashionable atmosphere and the development of the popularity. It is some species, valuable facilities. Wanting to have Tokyo Tower go through just as it is the railway


It sometimes says the "RIBA" golden week of the big observatory leading elevator, too, and it is crowed big.


The gift counter
The person who bought a plastic daily pad calendar calendar with Tokyo Tower is the possibility to be many.



There is such a lounge, too, in the Tokyo Tower building.
Only the chair and the desk of the pipe for the office work stand in line.


When crowed, there is time when it is possible to rise up to the stairs to big observatory (150m).
Together the admission fee even if it enters


It is lit up until changing 0 a.m. of the date when becoming at night. Before, it thinks to have been the light up of the illumination which a bulb is installed in along the line of the steel tower but it gets to light up light from under the present light up and to make whole Tower shine. The color depends on the summer and the winter and the one where the orange is attractive to the autumn, the winter-the spring becomes a whitish color in the summer.


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