Tokyo Tower

The Tokyo Tower (東京 タワーJapanese, Tōkyō TAWA ) is a 1958 on the model of the Eiffel Tower erbauter in steel truss design TV tower in Shiba Park in the district of Minato and one of the landmarks of the Japanese capital Tokyo. The Tokyo Tower is used for broadcasting of 24 TV and radio programs and recorded each year about three million visitors.

Description

With a height of 332.6 meters is the Tokyo Tower one of the tallest self-supporting, consisting of steel towers in the world. Even higher steel towers with at least one viewing platform are currently only Dragon Tower in Harbin, China and the TV Tower of Tashkent. The Tokyo Tower has two fully glazed platforms: a two-storey in height of 150 meters, which also includes shops and restaurants, and a one-story, pure observation deck at 250 meters altitude. On a clear day you can see up to Fuji.

After its completion in 1958, the Tokyo Tower was the tallest TV tower in the world and the second tallest free- standing structure in the world after the Empire State Building in New York ( 449 m).

Among other reasons of seismic safety, a steel lattice truss structure was chosen contrary to the trend of the 50s to TV tower buildings in reinforced concrete. The 1958 by the K. K. Takenaka Komuten (English Takenaka Corp.. ) Finished steel truss tower refers it in his body language to some lower Eiffel Tower in Paris. The pure metal weight of the tower is about 4,000 tons, it is slightly more than half the weight of the over 7,300 -tonne Eiffel Tower. The audience received 1958 entry after the opening on December 23. Each year, the Tokyo Tower has about three million visitors.

The Tokyo Tower also serves as a radio and television tower, with a number of radio antennas along the steel frame and a large television antenna on the top. Beneath the tower is a building that houses a small amusement park on four floors including a fish tank with rare fish, a waxworks museum, a game room, gift shops, restaurants and on the roof.

Due to the Tohoku earthquake on March 11, 2011, the spire was bent. The building was then locked up to and including March 18, 2011 to the public.

Tokyo Tower in art

The tower is a symbol of Japan's reconstruction and Western orientation of the country after the Second World War. Like the Eiffel Tower Tokyo Tower is because of his true character, often the scene of filming or actions. In the Toho monster movies of the Tokyo Tower has been in fights of Mothra and Godzilla often destroyed, and especially in Japanese anime, he often occurs as a venue for fights and action highlights.

The final battle of the film King Kong Escapes in 1967 also uses the backdrop of Tokyo Tower, and in the James Bond film You Only Live Twice (1967 ) you can see the tower in a scene in which a Chinook helicopter a Toyota Crown holds an electromagnet.

Remarkable

  • The Tokyo Tower is orange as aviation obstruction and painted white, for which 28,000 liters of paint were necessary.
  • The tower serves as a transmitting station 23 for radio or television signals ( analog and 14 digital 9 ).
  • At night, the tower of 176 lights is lit, the orange light in the winter and white in summer.

Tokyo Sky Tree

On 29 February 2012 a new tower construction project was completed under the name Tokyo Sky Tree. On 22 May 2012, the television and radio broadcasting tower was opened with 634 meters in Tokyo's Sumida district, which is the highest TV Tower and the second tallest building in the world. The Sky Tree Tokyo Tower sparked in March 2010 as the tallest structure in Tokyo from.

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