The Tokyo Tower is a communications and observation tower in the Shiba-koen district of Minato, Tokyo, Japan, built in 1958. At 332.9 meters (1,092 ft), it was the tallest tower in Japan until the construction of Tokyo Skytree in 2012. The structure is an Eiffel Tower-inspired lattice tower that is painted white and international orange to comply with air safety regulations.
Tokyo Tower as seen in 2023
Construction underway on 25 February 1958
Tokyo Tower around 1961
The Special Observatory located directly below the tower's digital television broadcasting equipment
Radio masts and towers are typically tall structures designed to support antennas for telecommunications and broadcasting, including television. There are two main types: guyed and self-supporting structures. They are among the tallest human-made structures. Masts are often named after the broadcasting organizations that originally built them or currently use them.
Tokyo Tower
A radio mast base showing how virtually all lateral support is provided by the guy-wires
The Tokyo Skytree was, in 2012, the tallest freestanding tower in the world
Multiwire broadcast T-antenna of early AM station WBZ, Springfield, Massachusetts, 1925.