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Konnichiwa fellow Travelers! Here’s a picture of the famous Tokyo Tower, it’s even a lot more stunning in person than in the picture. You just have to see it for yourself. I was on my last two days of vacation in Tokyo thinking if there were any other major landmarks that I have not yet seen. Then I realized, that though I’ve seen the Imperial Palace, and the Kabuki-za, I haven’t really had the chance to see Tokyo Tower. It’s just when I flipped through the pages of infomapJapan when I then realized that Tokyo Tower is a part of a Hato bus tour. So I took the tour and met a funny tour guide named Mrs. Sakaguchi. She said we could call her Ms. “K” because 1. nobody remembers the long name Sakaguchi and 2. she says  “K”, short for Ok, a lot.

 From what I learned from infomapJapan and the ever OK Mrs. Sakaguchi, Tokyo Tower stands an impressive 333meters, taller than the Eiffel Tower at 320 meters weighs 4,000 tonnes and has over 23 broadcasting signals for TV and Radio stations.  It was built on 1958 and it took 140 1 litre drums of paint to cover it in the dramatic red and white colors which it has become famous for. As a bit of trivia, the red and white colors are actually aviation safety regulated, which makes sense since Tokyo Tower does touch the sky!

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