“Tokyo Sky Tree” will debut in spring 2012 –an interview with its spokespeople(Part 1)
Tokyo Sky Tree , an upcoming symbol of Tokyo is under construction at the moment due for completion in the spring 2012.
Tokyo Sky Tree is to be a skyscraper which is going to be the highest independence television tower in the world whose height will be 634m high.
Tenkai-japan.com interviewed with spokesperson of TOBU TOWER SKYTREE CO.,Ltd. , the operating company of the tower’s Developing Project. We learned a lot of interesting information on the background of the project and possibilities of future development of the area including tourism.
Yasunori Mochizuki, a manager of that division explained the details of the tower’s project at the company’s building which is just next door to the very construction site of Tokyo Sky tree.
Narihirabashi of Oshiage in Sumida-ward Tokyo
TOKYO SKY TREE Info Plaza is a special information center to introduce and promote the tower’s project to tourists and any other visitors.
It located to the next door to Narihirabashi station along Tobu Isesaki Line.
TOKYO SKY TREE Info Plaza accepts both individual and group visitors. Individual visitors can freely view panel commentaries and photos of the back stories, the processes and courses of the construction, related short movies, and Power Point.
A group (10 or more people) visitors can book special briefings and enjoy those items as well at 500 yen. With a booking a briefing, a visiting group can be given detailed information on the project. Such a group are also given special gifts, such as mouse pads , post-its with Tokyo Sky Tree‘s pictures on , and so forth.
The small film theater where the short movies are run in the plaza has capacity of 35 persons and there were 14 panel photos. We saw photos of construction site. Photos are replaced periodically!
About 300 people visit here a day on average and on weekends much more people visit here, for example, it welcomed about 600 last Saturday.
In the show window of the plaza , there exhibited a very elaborated beautiful, shiny, half-transparent rendering diorama of Tokyo Sky Tree and surrounding towns, which touched us very much.
“Visiting groups, booking briefings, are allowed to ascend the indoor stairs of the plaza to the second floor for better viewing of the Tree”, Mochizuki explained.
To be continued to Part 2