| The Tokyo Tower has fallen at least three | | | | aquarium with over fifty thousand very small |
| times to cinematic conquerors. Godzilla, | | | | fish, and the third floor's Wax Works Museum |
| Mothra, and King Kong have all dispatched it; | | | | and holographic Mysterious Walking Zone. The |
| yet there it stands in Shiba Park at three | | | | final, and perhaps most entertaining, |
| hundred and thirty-three meters tall and | | | | attraction is the fourth floor's Trick Art |
| weighing four thousand tons, a monument to | | | | Gallery with its curious three-dimensional |
| post-World War II Japan's economic rise. | | | | images. One of the oddest things about the |
| Modeled after, and about nine metrrs taller | | | | Tokyo Tower's location is that it looms over |
| than, Paris' Eiffel Tower, the white and | | | | the14th century Zojoji Temple, which was |
| orange Tokyo Tower was designed to serve as | | | | moved to its present location in 1598. The |
| an antenna for nine television and five FM | | | | Zojoji Temple is one of Tokyo's major |
| radio stations. But its real value to Tokyo, | | | | temples, and was the family temple of the |
| since its opening in 1958, has been as a | | | | Tokugawa shogunate which ruled Japan from the |
| tourist attraction. Tokyo Tower Attractions | | | | Edo Period to the Meiji era. The |
| The Tokyo Tower has observation platforms | | | | juxtaposition of the two structures provides |
| both at the one-hundred-and fifty and two- | | | | a perfect bridge between the old and the new |
| hundred-and-fifty metre levels. While the | | | | Tokyo. Accommodations Close to the Tokyo |
| lower one is considered the main observatory, | | | | Tower Situated in the heart of Tokyo's |
| both of them provide visitors with | | | | "Twinkle Town" Rappongi district, the B |
| astonishing views of Tokyo, and on clear | | | | Roppongi Hotel offers its guests the perfect |
| days, of Ginza, .Mount Fuji, and Tokyo Bay. | | | | location from which to sample Tokyo's |
| The Tower is home to other separate admission | | | | nightlife, and is just a stone's throw from |
| attractions, including the first floor | | | | the Tokyo Tower and Zojoji Temple. |