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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".)
Apparently, they built the thing out of [[Imported Alien Phlebotinum]], because it's also a major weirdness magnet. If the [[Big Bad]] or [[The Dragon]] are going to attack, they'll attack
With all the suffering and destruction that happens there, it's a wonder that anyone is permitted near it...
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Since Tokyo Tower is not high enough to broadcast digital television signals over the same area, a new tower has been constructed: the "Tokyo Skytree", which opened its doors in May 2012. At 634 meters it is nearly twice as tall as its illustrious predecessor, but only time will tell whether it will replace Tokyo Tower as an icon in anime.
[[Truth in Television|The top was bent by a powerful earthquake]] on Friday, March
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* 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
** The [[Alternate Continuity|various versions]] of ''[[X 1999]]'' are fond of having the climactic battle there. (In [[The Movie]], even more [[Anvilicious
** ''[[Cardcaptor Sakura]]'' Midway through the anime, Sakura faces Yue during the Final Judgement. Also the manga's finale occurs there.
*** ''Card Captor Sakura Abridged'' has, as one of the first lines of the first episode, "Tokyo Tower, as seen in all generic anime."
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* 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 ''[[Mahou Tsukai ni Taisetsu na Koto]]'' (''Someday's Dreamers''), the Tokyo Tower is 'bent' by a girl's magical powers. This was in a desperate attempt to impress someone, so she couldn't muster the power to fix it. Fortunately, her tutor apparently can, as the tower appears intact in subsequent episodes.
* 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
** This happens in ''[[Angel Sanctuary]]''.
** ...and ''[[Kodomo no Omocha]]''.
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** 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]]''.
*** For that matter, nearly ''any'' tall observation tower in Japan will do, if
** It was the nest of the Devil Gundam in ''[[G Gundam]]''.
** And it was seen in a ruined state in ''[[Code Geass]]''.
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* In ''[[GaoGaiGar]]'', big bad Pasder set up shop underneath it shortly after crashing on Earth. He later used it to assimilate every computer in Tokyo (apparently) into his battle form.
* 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
* Lampshaded in ''[[Keroro Gunsou]]'' - the Nishizawa Radio Tower may look nothing like the Tokyo Tower, but does all the things the Tokyo tower would in other anime, etc. One time Giroro gets warped into a post-apocalyptic wasteland, where he finds a derelict Nishizawa radio tower in ruins. {{spoiler|Turns out the tower was merely obsoleted and abandoned along with the surrounding land, and there's three other towers not far away that have also undergone this.}}
* In ''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise]]'', X-Brawn drives to the top of the tower to chuck a bomb into space.
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* The web comic ''[[Okashina Okashi]]'' ("Strange Candy") does a major [[Lampshade Hanging]] of this in its opening episodes by doing an [[Everyone Meets Everyone]] where six different groups from six different alternate universes all get sucked into an interdimensional vortex from their own universe's version of
** Heck, one of the characters [[Genre Savvy|wanted to go there because all the crazy stuff happens there]].
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