Given the iconic status of the Eiffel Tower, it was a surprise to me to find that in 1958 Japan had built a bigger, some might say, better version as a demonstration of its "ascendancy as a global economic powerhouse" (to quote Wikipedia).
The Japanese version is 8.6 metres taller yet weighs about half as much. Other curious facts are that it was illuminated in green for the Japanese premier of the Matrix Reloaded and that it has a tendency to destroyed in various manners during the climatic scenes in certain anime and manga genres.
I went for a wander around the base of the other day. The queue to actually go up was very very long.
It's actually quite difficult to take a nice shot of it from a distance, because of the height of neighbouring buildings. So I took this one instead.
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