Tokyo Tower

A Tokyo landmark building you will often see on television is the Tokyo Tower. This sight looks like the Eiffel Tower, except it’s even bigger and painted orange and white. It’s currently the second biggest structure in Japan standing at an impressive 332.9 meters, which is 1,092 ft.

It functions as a radio tower, but the Japanese quickly found out it serves as an amazing tourist attraction as well, considering the amazing view over almost the entire city of Tokyo from the observatory at 150 meters high and the second smaller observatory at 250 meters high. Both observatories are open to tourists, but there is a fee attached to it. When the Tokyo Tower was built in 1958 it stood as a marvel of engineering in Japan representing the economic rebirth of the nation. Now it stands as a landmark and a fantastic vantage point.

At the bottom of the Tokyo Tower you will a shopping mall called FootTown. Here you will find several shops and restaurants. And more notably there is an expansive aquarium with more than fifty thousand fish in it. The Guinness World Records Museum of Tokyo can also be found here. And one of the cooler things to do at FootTown is the optical illusion museum called ‘Tokyo Tower’s Trick Art Gallery’, where lots of stereoscopic art is on display. Ensuring lots of neat photo opportunities.

If you want to take some pictures of the tower itself, then a great place to do that from is the Shiba Park. For the best shots people often try to capture the famous buddhist Zojoji Temple and the Tokyo Tower on the same picture, portraying a beautiful contrast between the old and new Japan.