Editing Tokyo Tower (section)

== Media representation ==
[[File:TokyoTower-night-2019-10-29.webm|thumb|thumbtime=10|Motion around Tokyo Tower at night, 2019]]

Just as the [[Eiffel Tower]] is often used in popular culture to immediately locate a scene in Paris, Tokyo Tower is often used in the same way for Tokyo.

It is used in [[anime]] and [[manga]] such as ''[[Doraemon]]'', ''[[Tokyo Magnitude 8.0]]'', ''[[Magic Knight Rayearth]]'', ''[[Please Save My Earth]]'', ''[[Cardcaptor Sakura]]'', ''[[Digimon]]'', ''[[Detective Conan]]'', ''[[Sailor Moon]]'', ''[[Tenchi Muyo!]]'' and ''[[Death Note]]''.<ref name="anime">{{cite news|url=http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/crashing-japan/one-week/tokyo-tower |author=Dong, Bamboo |title=Crashing Japan  |access-date=23 February 2009 |date=17 September 2007 |work=[[Anime News Network]]}}</ref> The tower is frequently used in the Japanese ''[[kaiju]]'' (giant monster) film genre. It has been the location of numerous battles and visitations by [[Godzilla]], [[Mothra]], [[Gamera]] and [[King Kong]] (''[[King Kong Escapes]]'') wherein it is frequently destroyed and rebuilt.<ref name="colliers" /><ref name="AFI">{{cite book |last1=Krafsur |first1=Richard P. | first2=Kenneth W. |last2=Munden |title=The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States: Feature Films, 1961–1970 |publisher=[[University of California Press]] |year=1997 |isbn=0-520-20970-2 |page=578}}</ref>

Tokyo Tower is represented in [[Unicode]] as an [[emoji]] at code point U+1F5FC: 🗼

Tokyo Tower and its construction often appears in [[Shōwa nostalgia]] fiction and non-fiction, where it is used as a symbol of the financial prosperity of Shōwa era Japan.<ref>Katsuyuki Hidaka. Japanese Media at the Beginning of the 21st Century: Consuming the Past. Routledge. 2017. Hardback p 4 (ebook [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=3JM4DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA2004#v=onepage&q&f=false PA2004]), "Tokyo Tower in films" at hardback p 58 (ebook [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=3JM4DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT83#v=onepage&q&f=false PT83]) and the rest of chapter 2. See also passim.</ref> For example, the 2005 film ''[[Always Sanchōme no Yūhi]]'', based on the popular manga series by Ryōhei Saigan, was a nostalgic view of life in the neighborhoods beneath the construction of Tokyo Tower.