Tokyo Tower

After doing research about famous landmarks in Tokyo, here are my findings. Lets go!

Tokyo Tower

The Tokyo Tower
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• The Tokyo Tower was Japan's tallest self supporting steel tower until.
• It is in the Minato ward and took 18 years to build.

Location of the Minato Ward
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• 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.

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

Cool white lights in winter
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• 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

This months schedule

• Click here to see the illumination schedule

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