World Tallest Free Standing Structure in Japan? Not CN Tower?
TOKYO — Move over Toronto: Japan’s major broadcast networks are nearing completion on plans to build the world’s tallest tower in Tokyo, a Japanese newspaper reported Tuesday.
The tower — to be 600 metres tall — will be used for terrestrial digital broadcasting at a cost of some $420 million US, the national newspaper, Yomiuri, reported. 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 free-standing structure in the world currently is the CN Tower in Toronto, which was built almost 30 years ago and soars just over 553 metres.
Source: canada.com
Well, currently the world tallest free-standing building is still the CN Tower, Toronto, Canada, but maybe not by 2011. Japan is aiming to build a new tower. Here are my photos of CN Tower; they were taken during my NORTH dental research at UWO, London, Ontario in summer 2005.
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TOKYO — Move over Toronto: Japan’s major broadcast networks are nearing completion on plans to build the world’s tallest tower in Tokyo, a Japanese newspaper reported Tuesday. 





















