Tokyo Tower
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| The Tokyo Tower By English: redlegsfan21 (Flickr) [CC BY-SA 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons |
- The Tokyo Tower was Japan's tallest self supporting steel tower until.
- It is in the Minato ward and took 18 years to build.
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| Location of the Minato Ward By by User:Fg2 [Copyrighted free use], via Wikimedia Commons |
- The design of the Tokyo Tower was based on the Eiffel Tower.
- However, the Tokyo Tower is 333m and the Eiffel Tower is 320m.
- It has 2 purposes, it is a communication tower and an observation tower.
- It transmits some radio signals and some digital signals throughout the Tokyo region.
- It is a back up communication tower for the Tokyo Skytree which is the main communication tower
- The main observatory is 150m above the ground
- The special observatory is 250m above the ground, on days with good visibility, you can see the Skytree and Mt Fuji.
- The Tokyo has 2 types of illuminations. They are called Landmark lights and Diamond veil lights
- The Landmark lights consist of 180 lights which illuminates the tower. They are the standard lighting of the tower.
- In the summer, the lights are a cool white color.
- And in the winter, they are a warm orange color.
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| The Tokyo Tower with its warm orange illuminations By Eckhard Pecher = User:Arcimboldo (Self-photographed) [CC BY 2.5 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5)], via Wikimedia Commons |
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| Cool white lights in winter By Ian Muttoo [CC BY-SA 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons |
- The Diamond veil lights consist of 276 lights which illuminate the tower on Saturdays. There are 17 layers of lights which can change into 7 different colours.
- Each colour represents something.
- Red-represents love and gratitude
- Pink-dreams and happiness
- White-eternity and succesion
- Gold-hope and celebration
- Earth green-earth and peace
- Blue-water and life
- Gem like green-nature and environment
- There is a schedule for which lights go on
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| This months schedule |
- Click here to see the illumination schedule
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