Tokyo Tower
Tokyo Tower, also known as Tokyo tower is located next to the Shiba-Kouen (Shiba Park) in Minato-ku, Tokyo.
The tower that measures exactly 332.6 meters is painted red and white to comply with aviation regulations.
Tokyo Tower is the tallest tower in Japan and number 20 worldwide.
Although the main function of the Tokyo Tower is to act as a communications tower for television and radio, this has become the most visited tourist attraction in Japan, with over 2.5 million annual visits. The seaside resorts of this tower are the many museums that have inside, shops, restaurants and especially the two observatories that has a 150 meters tall and the other at 250 meters.
About 1953 the NHK (Japanese public broadcaster) began to need to build towers for communications to other stations that followed also needed more towers. The Japanese government began to think that Tokyo would become a city plagued by communication towers, so we thought the best solution would be to build a telecommunications tower that could cover the vast majority of the Kanto area (approximately 150 km).
At first it was thought to build the tower taller than the Empire State Building, which was the largest building in the world at that time with a height of 381 meters. However, the lack of materials and money that this construction did not have this size and just have the size needed for telecommunication function.
Subsequently, Naito Tachu was chosen to propose another design for the tower, which I look for inspiration in a design based on the Eiffel Tower, which was able to build with the help of the company Nikken Sekkei Ltd, a tower capable of withstanding earthquakes of double magnitude that the great Kanto earthquake of 1923 and typhoons over 220 kilometers per hour.
Construction began in 1957 with over 400 workers and was finished on December 23, 1958 at a cost of 2.8 billion yen, which I just think 4000 tonnes, 3300 tonnes from the Eiffel Tower, and 13 meters higher than this .
Remember that the mass construction of skyscrapers around the Tokyo Tower has made its telecommunications tower function is affected, so there is already a project for a new Tokyo Tower that nearly doubled the size of the current and will be located in Sumida for 2011.
The viewpoints of the Tokyo Tower is a great place to see how big Tokyo and see the skyscrapers that have the surroundings. It is also a great place to take pictures. I recommend climbing the Tokyo Tower a little before sundown to take pictures during the day and be in the tower when the sun has been made to take pictures at night. This can happen in about 40 minutes.
Then I put some images taken last month from the Tokyo Tower. You can see all the photos here .
Information translated and adapted from Wikipedia .
