Tokyo Tower

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Tokyo Tower
東京 タ ワ ー
Image of the object
Tower 2011
Basic data
Place: Minato ( Tokyo )
Prefecture: Tokyo
Country: Japan
Altitude : 22 m  TP
Coordinates: 35 ° 39 ′ 30.9 ″  N , 139 ° 44 ′ 43.5 ″  E
Use: TV tower , telecommunications tower , radio transmitter , restaurant , observation tower
Accessibility: TV tower open to the public
Tower data
Construction time : 1957-1958
Operating time: since 1958
Last renovation (tower) : 2011
Total height : 332.6  m
Viewing platforms: 150  m , 250 m
Total mass : 4000  t
Data on the transmission system
Waveband : FM transmitter
Radio : VHF broadcasting
Send types: Analog television , digital television , directional radio
Further data
Commissioning : December 23, 1958
Position map
Tokyo Tower (Japan)
Tokyo Tower
Tokyo Tower
Night view of Zojo from
On the middle platform of the Tokyo Tower: View straight down through a transparent floor segment
Detailed view of the upper viewing platform

The Tokyo Tower ( Japanese 東京 タ ワ ー , Tōkyō Tawā ) is a television tower built in 1958 based on the model of the Eiffel Tower in steel frame construction in Shiba Park in the Minato district and one of the landmarks of the Japanese capital Tokyo . The Tokyo Tower is used to broadcast 24 television and radio programs and has around three million visitors annually.

description

With a height of 332.6 meters, the Tokyo Tower is one of the tallest self-supporting steel towers in the world. Even higher steel towers with at least one viewing platform are currently only the dragon tower in Harbin, China, and the television tower in Tashkent . The Tokyo Tower has two fully glazed platforms: a two-story platform at a height of 150 meters, which also contains shops and restaurants, and a single-story, pure viewing platform at a height of 250 meters. In clear weather you can see as far as Mount Fuji .

When it was completed in 1958, Tokyo Tower was the tallest television tower in the world and the second tallest free-standing structure in the world after the Empire State Building in New York (449 m).

For reasons of earthquake safety, among other things, a steel lattice framework construction was chosen , contrary to the trend of the 1950s for television towers in reinforced concrete. The 1958 by the KK Takenaka Komuten (Engl. Takenaka Corp. ) completed lattice tower refers in its design language to the slightly lower Paris Eiffel Tower (→ List of Eiffel Tower replicas and derivatives ). The pure metal weight of the tower is around 4,000  tons , making it a little more than half as heavy as the Eiffel Tower, which weighs over 7,300 tons. The public was admitted after the opening on December 23, 1958. The Tokyo Tower has around three million visitors annually.

Tokyo Tower also doubles as a radio and television tower, with a series of radio antennas running along the steel structure and a large television antenna on top. Below the tower is a building that houses, on four floors, an aquarium with rare fish, a wax museum , an arcade, souvenir shops, restaurants and a small amusement park on the roof.

As a result of the Tōhoku earthquake on March 11, 2011, the spire was bent. The building was then closed to the public until March 18, 2011 inclusive.

Tokyo Tower in art

The tower is a symbol of the Japanese reconstruction and the western orientation of the country after the Second World War. Similar to the Eiffel Tower , the Tokyo Tower is often the scene of film recordings or actions because of its landmark character. In the monster films by Tōhō , the Tokyo Tower was not infrequently destroyed in battles between Mothra and Godzilla . In Japanese anime in particular , it is often used as a setting for fights and plot highlights , examples being Detective Conan and Sailor Moon .

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

Remarkable

  • The Tokyo Tower is painted orange and white as an aviation obstacle, which required 28,000 liters of paint.
  • The tower serves as a transmission station for 23 radio and television signals (14 analog and 9 digital).
  • At night, the tower is illuminated by 176 spotlights, which glow orange in winter and white in summer.
  • The Tokyo Tower is coming a. in the anime Gantz .

Tokyo Skytree

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

literature

Web links

Commons : Tokyo Tower  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Half century on, Tokyo Tower still dazzles as landmark , The Japan Times, December 30, 2008, accessed April 10, 2016.
  2. ↑ skyscraperpage.com
  3. ^ Tokyo Tower turns 50. In: The Straits Times. December 22, 2008, archived from the original on April 24, 2010 ; accessed on July 27, 2016 (English).
  4. ^ Image of the warped spire. In: Jiji Press Ltd. Retrieved July 27, 2016 (Japanese).
  5. ↑ Tokyo Tower to reopen Sat. In: Kyodo News. March 18, 2011, archived from the original on June 13, 2011 ; Retrieved July 27, 2016 (Japanese).
  6. ↑ 東京 ス カ イ ツ リ ー が 完成 サ イ ト は す ご く 長 い . In: ITmedia Inc. Retrieved July 27, 2016 (Japanese).
  7. ↑ Tokyo Skytree website. (No longer available online.) In: TOBU RAILWAY CO., LTD. & TOBU TOWER SKY TREE CO., LTD. Archived from the original on May 29, 2012 ; accessed on July 27, 2016 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tokyo-skytree.jp