Tokyo Skytree
At 634 metres, the height isn't random — 6-3-4 spells "Musashi," the ancient name for this exact corner of Tokyo.
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Two observatories stack at 350m and 450m, the upper one capped by a spiral glass skywalk where you walk the final 5 metres to the peak. A section of glass flooring lets you look straight down at the streets below. After dark, the tower's LED skin switches between sky-blue Iki and purple Miyabi on alternating nights.
What to look for
- The glass floor panels at 450m — you're looking straight down through them to the city
- The spiral glass-covered skywalk that carries you the last 5 metres to the highest platform
- The nightly colour shift: sky-blue Iki one evening, purple Miyabi the next
Tokyo Skytree Station is adjacent to the complex; the tower is 7km northeast of Tokyo Station.
Tokyo Skytree is one of 35 sights worth the detour in Tokyo, all bundled offline in Voyage GO — download the Tokyo pack and it sits on your map with no signal, filling your travel passport the moment you walk past.
More to see in Tokyo
- Mode Gakuen Cocoon TowerA 50-story school curved like a cocoon — white aluminum and dark-blue glass, criss-crossed by diagonal white lines — that beat 150 rival proposals and won Skyscraper of the Year.
- Tokyo TowerA third of its steel came from US tanks scrapped after the Korean War — Japan's postwar recovery, painted orange and bolted into the sky.
- National Diet LibraryBorn in 1948 as a "citadel of popular sovereignty," Japan's national library holds 12 million volumes — and anyone can walk in.
- Akihabara (Electric Town)The black market that outgrew itself and became Japan's otaku capital.
- Tokyo National MuseumOne in ten of every artwork Japan has ever officially designated a National Treasure lives here.
- Yasukuni ShrineKamikaze pilots swore they would "meet again at Yasukuni" — 2,466,532 names are enshrined here, fourteen of them convicted of Class A war crimes at the Tokyo Trial.