Tokyo Tower

The official name is Nippon Denpato Tokyo tower (Tower RadioJpenag waves) that are triggered by Hisakichi Maeda, a business newspaper in Osaka. This building is a steel tower bangungn the highest in the world with a height of 332.6 m. The overall In accordance with aviation safety regulations, or Tokyo Tower Tokyo Tower painted with international orange with white in some places. Lower surrounding buildings, so the Tokyo Tower can be seen from various locations in the city center.

The design of the tower following the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France. Although higher than the Eiffel Tower 8.6 m (32.6 m higher when a television antenna is also counted), Tokyo Tower only weighs 4200 tons compared to the Eiffel Tower weighs 7300 tons. The top of the tower is designed to withstand high winds blowing wind speeds up to 100 m per second, while the bottom of the tower withstand winds of up to 80 m per second.

The transmitter is placed at the Tokyo Tower can reach the Kanto region to a radius of 100 km. Before the Tokyo Tower was established, a number of TV stations in Tokyo, NHK General TV, Nippon Television (NTV), and TBS has been operating with its own transmitter antenna height of 170 m. In 1958, Fuji TV, NET (now TV Asahi), and the NHK educational channel started to move the transmitter antenna to the Tokyo Tower.

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