Completed in 1958 as a symbol of Japan's post-war recovery, it stands ten meters taller than the Eifel Tower. That is on purpose. It also, in my opinion, looks like an uglier cousin of the Eifel Tower. It also apperently weighs half as much as the Eifel Tower because it was built seventy years later and uses lighter, stronger steel.

It costs 840 Yen to go up to the first observation deck at 150 meters up. But soon after completion more buildings of height went up in the city, so a 250 meter observation deck was built. Which costs another 600 Yen to go up. I have made the journey up twice, five years apart from each other. These are the good pictures I have taken of Tokyo Tower. In the Winter time the Tower is bathed in amber light, which I think is better than the white light that is used in the Summer time. Though I have been told that about ten years ago it used to not be bathed in light and only the lights on the tower itself were seen at night. This same source seemed to miss those days. Lastly, the reason the tower is so damn ugly with that rust/white paint job is due to national law that states transmission towers of a certain height or more (and I am sure Tokyo Tower exeeds that ten times over) have to be painted that way.