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{{Useful Notes}}
[[File:Tokyo Tower
The Japanese built a rough copy of the [[Eiffel Tower]] in Tokyo in the 1950s as a tourist attraction and as as an antenna for TV and radio broadcasting. It's clearly visible from most of town, and is a frequent destination for [[Class Trip|class trips]] from local schools. (It is also sometimes referred to as "Touto Tower".)
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* The tower is heavily damaged in a fight between ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' and friends and one of the members of the third season's [[Quirky Miniboss Squad]].
* ''[[CLAMP]]'' often features Tokyo Tower as the site of an important event
** Hikaru, Umi, and Fuu are sucked away to Cephiro from Tokyo Tower at the start of ''[[Magic Knight Rayearth]]''. Their schools were holding student trips there on exactly the same day. {{spoiler|Once the first part brings a [[Downer Ending]], the girls are brought back there to square one. At the beginning of part 2 (at least in the anime), the three go to the Tower on their own to speak about their experiences... and are brought back to Cephiro to help deal with the choosing of a new Pillar.}}
** The [[Alternate Continuity|various versions]] of ''[[X 1999]]'' are fond of having the climactic battle there. (In [[The Movie]], even more [[Anvilicious]]ly, the magical shield Kamui generates there is a glowing golden sphere which visually evokes Japan's identity as the land of the Rising Sun.)
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* The tower is the key to accessing deadly doomsday weapons on the moon base in ''[[Please Save My Earth]]''.
* In ''[[Eyeshield 21]]'', the Deimon Devil Bats rent out the tower for the afternoon as part of Hiruma's "Tower of Hell" test, where potential recruits for the team must carry ice up the stairs to the upper observatory on a hot day.
* In the anime ''[[
* Tokyo's city hall is a distinctive building with two tall square-ish towers, each of which has an observation deck on top. In a pinch, it can function as a substitute Tokyo Tower.▼
** This happens in ''[[Angel Sanctuary]]''.▼
** ...and ''[[Kodomo no Omocha]]''.▼
** It was the center of operations in ''[[Blue Seed]]''.▼
** As well as for the Hypnos [[The Men in Black|Men in Black]] organization in ''[[Digimon Tamers]]''.▼
** [[CLAMP]]'s fond of using it in this way, as they do in both ''[[X 1999]]'' (the Dragons of Earth are headquartered beneath it) and ''[[Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle]]'' (it serves as a foil to Tokyo Tower in a world where there are only two intact structures left).▼
** Its ruins play a small role in ''[[Silent Moebius]]'' as the resting place of Grospoliner, Katsumi's sword.▼
** It was nearly attacked by EI-02, the first [[Robeast|Zonder Robo]] in ''[[GaoGaiGar]]''.▼
** It was the nest of the Devil Gundam in ''[[G Gundam]]''.▼
** And it was seen in a ruined state in ''[[Code Geass]]''.▼
* Tokyo Tower is the site of a bombing attempt in one episode of ''[[Detective Conan]]'', and the scene of the climax of the 13th [[Non-Serial Movie]] ''Raven Chaser''.
** Heck, it very nearly qualifies as a [[Weaponized Landmark]] when {{spoiler|Conan takes out the Black Organization's helicopter by ''turning Tokyo Tower into a giant slingshot''.}}
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* In ''[[Detroit Metal City]]'', DMC's fans overanalyze something Krauser says at the end of a concert, thinking it means to gather at the Tokyo Tower and chant his name. Negichi, as Krauser, goes to the Tower to make them stop. However, it ends with him ''raping'' the Tower. Naturally, the fans love it.
* The Tokyo Tower is seen in both the [[Anime]] and live action [[Film]] versions of ''[[Death Note]]''.
* Lampshaded in ''[[Keroro Gunsou]]'' - the Nishizawa Radio Tower may look nothing like the Tokyo Tower, but does all the things the Tokyo
* In ''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise]]'', X-Brawn drives to the top of the tower to chuck a bomb into space.
* It gets ''knocked into orbit'' along with a monster in ''[[Super Dreadnought Girl 4946]]'', and manages to impale the monster when they hit the moon.
* The Tokyo Tower was seen in ''[[G Gundam]]'' being destroyed by Domon Kasshu to root out the Devil Gundam's minions, or rather the mind-controlled Shuffle Alliance members.
* The tower is also
* Rather plot-important in ''[[Mawaru Penguindrum]]''. {{spoiler|It didn't look the way it does in real life... but it was a 30-meters tall ''David sculpture''. It got retconned into the Tower we know and love when Momoka rewrites reality to free her friend Yuri from her abusive father.}}
* In ''[[Gantz]]'', the tower can be seen from the apartment where Gantz gathers its latest "recruits".
* ''[[Lyrical Nanoha]]'' plays with this trope in the two-part movie story ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Reflection]]'' and ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Detonation]]''. When the villain of ''Reflection'' goes to ground in Tokyo, the good guys set up shop and carry out their search from the Tokyo Skytree, said tower having been recently completed when ''Detonation'' was released in Japan. This leads to the battle with that villain {{spoiler|taking place at the Tokyo Tower anyway}}.
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== [[Fan Works]] ==
* In the ''[[Harry Potter]]/[[Sailor Moon]]/[[Ranma ½]]'' crossover ''[[The Girl Who Loved]]'', Cuteness falls from the observation deck of the Tower when she vanishes one of the windows with accidental magic in response to Rei pressuring her on the whereabouts of (the currently-dead) Usagi.
== [[Film]] ==
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** The tower is destroyed once again in ''Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S.''
* The final battle in ''[[Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl]]'' happens on Tokyo Tower.
* The makers of ''[[Lost in Translation (film)|Lost in Translation]]'' somehow managed to resist the urge to include a shot of Tokyo Tower until near the very end of the film.
* [[Enter the Fat Dragon (2020 film)|''Enter the Fat Dragon'' (the 2020 remake)]] has a fight taking place on Tokyo Tower.
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
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