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The Tokyo Tower

The Tokyo Tower has fallen at least threeaquarium 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 threefinal, and perhaps most entertaining,
hundred and thirty-three meters tall andattraction is the fourth floor's Trick Art
weighing four thousand tons, a monument toGallery 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 tallerTokyo Tower's location is that it looms over
than, Paris' Eiffel Tower, the white andthe14th century Zojoji Temple, which was
orange Tokyo Tower was designed to serve asmoved to its present location in 1598. The
an antenna for nine television and five FMZojoji 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 aTokugawa shogunate which ruled Japan from the
tourist attraction. Tokyo Tower AttractionsEdo Period to the Meiji era. The
The Tokyo Tower has observation platformsjuxtaposition 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 theTokyo. 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 clearRoppongi 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 admissionnightlife, and is just a stone's throw from
attractions, including the first floorthe Tokyo Tower and Zojoji Temple.



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