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The Tokyo Sky Tree will appear in the Narihirabashi/Oshiage area of Sumida Ward, Tokyo in 2011. Boasting a height of about 610m, the tower will be one of the world's tallest.



Digital Terrestrial Broadcasting and the Role of the New Tower

In July 2011, the current analog broadcasting will end and a complete transition made to digital broadcasting.
Five commercial stations and NHK took this as a turning point to advance preparations towards digital broadcasting from a TV tower with a height of around 600m and decided on the Sumida/Taito area as the site for construction of the tower. In addition, for "one-segment broadcasting (one-seg)," a digital broadcasting service for mobile devices that was launched in April 2006, it is ideal to have transmissions from a height that is not very vulnerable to the forest of super high-rise buildings that stand at heights of around 200m in downtown Tokyo. Expectations are also on the tower to serve the role of a tower equipped with disaster prevention features.

Birth of a Town with a Tower

At the foot of the new tower will be a "town with a tower" spans about 400m from east to west, connecting Oshiage Station and Narihirabashi Station, and encompassing an area of about 3.69ha. A networking plaza leading from Oshiage Station to the tower lobby on level four of the facility, three plazas in front of the station and along Kitajukken River, and Shinsui Park will form a community environment where visitors and nearby residents will gather.

Location

Located about 1km east of Asakusa - a town filled with the atmosphere of a shitamachi (the traditional name for the area of Tokyo that extends from Taito, Chiyoda and Chuo Wards east of the Sumida River where many merchants, craftsmen, etc. reside) - and about 2km northeast of Ryogoku - a town famous for sumo wrestling. The new tower stands in a major traditional international tourism zone of Japan.

Development Schedule

Fiscal 2006: Basic design
Fiscal 2007~8: Execution design
July 2008: Start of construction
December 2011: (Scheduled) Construction completion
Spring 2012: (Scheduled) Grand opening

Official Website:
http://www.tokyo-skytree.jp/english/
 
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#3,463 ·
Great shots the ones with sakuras.

Is it reasonable in your opinion to expect some 1st pod's steel by the end of the month?

Accordingy with diagrams, we should really be there, aren't we?
 
#3,464 ·
According to the schedule the work on the 1st pod starts in May.


04/10 blog round-up #2



But we can see the 1st signs that the current levels of the tower body won't be visible because of the pod. The big steel tubes are much more basic and aren't white anymore. And they also halved the number of tubes that make the outer circle of the tower body.






512colors.blog120.fc2.com/


tokyo2ndtower.cocolog-nifty.com/blog/








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512colors.blog120.fc2.com/
 
#3,465 ·
^^ you are right.
Also, it seems to go against Japanese culture to boast about what you can do well. Which is why there are no supertalls in Tokyo and why the Sky Tree is 634m (as tall as it needs to be) even though it could probably be twice that height.
If they build as high as it needs to be why did they increase the height than to beat the Shanghai Tower?
 
#3,467 ·
Lol Hakuta did you use Google Translate?

Had to think really hard to understand what you mean:

When they set the goal the have the second tallest tower in the world they want that goal to come true and therefore they made it higher? Right?

But that still doesn't answer my question, if they are so not-boasting-around why would they want to have the highest than?
 
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