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With all the suffering and destruction that happens there, it's a wonder that anyone is permitted near it...

 

 

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.

* ''[[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.}}

*** ''Card Captor Sakura Abridged'' has, as one of the first lines of the first episode, "Tokyo Tower, as seen in all generic anime."

** An early chapter of ''[[Tokyo Babylon]]'' had Subaru attempting to placate a spirit which had become bound to Tokyo Tower after committing suicide nearby. Tokyo Tower was the one place in Tokyo she liked, so that'ś where she went after death.

** Tokyo tower (partially destroyed during the war) became a museum in [[Code Geass]].

* It also makes several appearances and makes a serious plot point as a fictional [[Expy]] called "Angel Tower" in [[Tokyo Godfathers]].

* 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.

* 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]]''.

** 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]]''.

** Its ruins play a small role in ''[[Silent Moebius]]'' as the resting place of Grospoliner, Katsumi's sword.

*** For that matter, nearly ''any'' tall observation tower in Japan will do, if [[Tokyo Tower]] is booked up for another emergency.

** It was the nest of the Devil Gundam in ''[[G Gundam]]''.

* The titular character of the anime ''[[Samurai Deeper Kyo]]'' manages to actually {{spoiler|impale the main villain on a collapsing Tokyo Tower.}} Doubly impressive since the series takes place in 1603.

* During a series of real-world battles in ''[[Digimon Adventure]]'', one of the evil Digimon follows Sora and Mimi into Tokyo Tower. He manages to bend the top half of the tower before being defeated.

* 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.

* 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.

* 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.

 

== [[Film]] ==

* In the 1961 daikaiju movie ''[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055198/ Mothra,]'' the title monster [[wikipedia:Image:Mothra Larva.jpg|knocks over the Tower]] and then builds her cocoon in the ruins.

** In the 1995 [[Heisei]] [[Gamera]] , the Gyaos deftly evades killer missiles, lets ''them'' take out Tokyo Tower, and proceeds to build its nest in the ruins, almost mocking its human prey.

** ''[[King Kong Escapes]]'' has Kong and his robotic foe climb Tokyo Tower during the film's climax.

** The tower is destroyed once again in ''Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S.''

 

== [[Live-Action TV]] ==

** ''[[Kamen Rider Decade]]'' reuses it. In Kabuto World, the Hikari Studios is placed right near the tower. Natsumi calls it "trendy". The tower is also used for the final battle. There is surprisingly little property damage.

*** ''Decade'' even lampshades the tower's prominence in ''Kabuto'': each of the AU worlds is represented in the photo studio by a backdrop that shows important elements from their source series. Kabuto's backdrop is Tokyo Tower with Tendou's skyward-pointing finger next to it.

** ''[[Kamen Rider Double]]'', set in Futo, the Windy City, has its own Futo Tower, which is really a gigantic windmill.

 

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

* The setting of ''[[Makai Toshi Sa Ga]]'' consists of four "worlds" connected by a huge tower, one of which (the "World of Ruins") resembles a devastated Tokyo cityscape, with the tower represented on the world map by a likeness of the Tokyo Tower. (So, the Tokyo Tower actually does "mark an inter-universal nexus" in this game.)