Tokyo Sky Tree also known as Tokyo’s New Tower

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It’s impossible to not get overwhelmed by the Tokyo Sky Tree, found at Sumida (Tokyo’s outskirts – Japan), since it has a total height of 634 meters. It’s also known as Tokyo’s New Tower.
 
Besides, Tokyo Sky Tree serves as a television and radio tower as well. It hosts a restaurant, a bay window and a number of shops. 
 
If you want to get the top of the Tokyo Sky Tree, you need to use up to 13 different elevators. From floors 1 to 3 you can find the shopping mall called Solamachi. On 4th and 5th floors the first tower access is available. In these floors there are located some souvenir shops, rest areas… From the 4th floor upwards, we can get the first elevator that goes up to 350 m, where we can be amazed by the Tembo Observatory. It’s important to point out that the elevator can reach the 350 m height in just 50 seconds, so be careful with your ears because the pressure difference can be clearly (and sometimes painfully!) perceived.
 
From this point and on clear days without clouds, we can see up to 70 km away. In this same 4th floor 
you can get the second elevator that takes you up to 450 m high, and where we can visit the Tembo Gallery. It’s bruited that on clear days you can even see the Earth’s curvature from this bay window.
 
Tourists are not allowed to access the building from the 450 m high and on, since there’s where the communication tower is constantly on duty. 
 
Surprisingly, the name Tokyo Sky Tree was decided by a national poll. The tower was designed with an original color, named by the Japanese as “SkyTree White”, which represents the harmony of the tower and its surroundings. This color comes from a mix of the color “ijiro” which is the clearest and lightest form of blue that the Japanese know of.
 
The height of the tower itself wasn’t a coincide neither, as number 634 in Japanese is read as “mu-ss-shi”, which reminds of Musshi, the old province that covered part of Tokyo, Saitama and part of Kanangawa. 
 
Its construction was completed on February 29, 2012 but it wasn’t open until the May 22, 2012.
 
This project was carried out by Tobu Railway, a company group that includes 6 radio stations. The estimated project cost is supposed to be around the amount of 806 million dollars. 
 
Even when the base of the structure looks like a tripod, it has a cylindrical base so it can outstay the strong winds that Tokyo often experiences. Another curiosity that this tower boasts is that the two top lights that can be found at the tower’s highest point progressively converge together with the two bay windows’ lights up to the tower’s base, trying to remind the spectator of the Mount Fuji.

 

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