World's tallest tower set for Tokyo
Japan’s major broadcast networks are in the final stages of choosing a location in Tokyo to build the tallest tower in the world, a Japanese newspaper reported today.
The tower – to be 1,980ft tall when completed – will be used for terrestrial digital broadcasting at a cost of £243.3m (€335.1m), the national Yomiuri newspaper said.
It is scheduled for completion in 2011.
Officials from Japan’s public broadcaster NHK and five Tokyo-based commercial broadcasting companies are involved in the project.
Kinji Terada, a spokesman of NHK, said officials are now “in a final stage of co-ordination” in picking the location for the tower in Tokyo’s old entertainment area in Sumida ward.
The tallest structure in the world is now the CN Tower in Toronto, Canada, which stretches 1,815ft, largely because of a huge antenna.
