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