Chūbu Electric Power MIRAI TOWER (中部電力 MIRAI TOWER) 中部電力 MIRAI TOWER
Since 12 December 2022 it has been the first Japanese tower to be declared a cultural property.
Completed on 20 June 1954 to a design by Naitō Tachū, the engineer who a few years later would design Tokyo Tower, it is the first Japanese tower built to broadcast television. The national register lists it as 178.7 metres tall, with 35 metres between one leg and the next. Listed as a Registered Tangible Cultural Property in 2005, on 12 December 2022 it became 重要文化財, that is, a cultural property of national importance: the first tower in the country to receive this designation. The enclosed observation deck, Sky Deck, is at 90 metres, and the open-air Sky Balcony, added in 1968, is at 100. Since 2020 the fourth and fifth floors have been a hotel, THE TOWER HOTEL NAGOYA.
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Sakaemachi, Sakae, Hisaya-odori
