Tokyo Tower



Just as the Eiffel Tower represents the city of Paris, The Tokyo Tower is a landmark which represents Tokyo. It is seen in many movies from the Godzilla and Gamera series, and also appears in many other films produced by a variety of companies. It usually bears the brunt of Kaiju battles, and is usually reduced a pile of rubble and bent steel at the conclusion of the battles.

Tokyo Tower is located in the Shiba-koen district of Minato, Tokyo, and is 333 metres tall. Like the Eiffel Tower, it has ample amounts of Radio apparatus and antennae which help supply television and radio signals to the city below. Until 2011, it was the tallest structure in Japan, with the title now going to the Tokyo Sky Tree, which is exactly 301 metres taller.

Appearances

 * Mothra - After the larval form of Mothra emerges, having more than trashed the city of Tokyo, she cocoons herself against the base of the tower. Later, she emerges from the egg, damaging the tower and flies off to New Kirk City to retrieve her twin fairies.


 * King Kong Escapes - King Kong and Mechani-Kong clamber up the outside of the tower to duke it out above the two observation decks, on the main radio antenna. Thanks to the timely intervention of Madame Piranha, who cuts off the control wires to a machine which allowed Dr. Hu to control Mechani-kong, the robotic ape malfunctions, and falls off the tower, with his hand ripping off the tower's main antenna in the process.


 * Gamera: Guardian of the Universe - After the main antenna of the tower is blasted off by the military due to a blunder, Gyaos builds a nest on top of the tower. When Gamera arrives, Gyaos takes off from the top of the tower, showering eggs and pieces of the nest onto the city below.


 * Godzilla: Final Wars - When Godzilla blasts the meteor containing Monster X, a massive explosion results. When the dust cloud clears, it is revealed that Tokyo Tower, albeit still standing, is badly damaged, with much of its upper section tilting to one side. Ironically, it has suffered the least damage, with most of central Tokyo now nothing more than a sea of crumbling, burning ruins.