Tokyo Television Tower
Shibakō en, Minato-ku, Tō kyō-to, Japan
Description:
Tokyo Television Tower, almost 333 meters high, located in Tokyo Shiba Park, is the tallest building in Japan. The tower is included in the list of 29 highest objects of the World Federation of high-rise towers and ranks 13th among them, but among the highest TV towers in the world it occupies only 22nd place.
The tower has a lattice structure and is painted orange and white. It takes 28,000 liters of paint to paint the tower. It was built in 1958. The tower weighs 4,000 tons, 3,000 tons less than the Eiffel Tower. Today, the tower is more of a tourist attraction and a symbol of Tokyo. Every year the observation deck of the tower is visited by about 3 million tourists.
At the bottom of the tower is a building that houses various museums, shops and restaurants. The tower is often used in movies, anime and manga.