“Tokyo Sky Tree” ‘s official image character is created
Tokyo Sky Tree, which is to be a new tower of TV broadcasting currently under construction that has been written about in this site several times, announced it created an official image character of the tower on this 28th.http://www.tokyo-skytree.jp/english/
The name of the character is “Sorakara-chan”(meaning “a cute girl that has come from the sky” ). She will appear on occasions of PR activities, on the materials , TV commercials. and other methods of the Tower project.
Sorakara-chan has a golden head with a star shape which actually represents “a star falling from the sky”. The local merchants’ association had already made an image character of the tower called “Oshinari-kun”, but the two characters are said to be good friends and work together in the promotion activities of the tower’s project from now on.
Tokyo Sky Tree in Sumida-ward Tokyo is finally going to become 634 m high when it is finished in 2012 and it has already become 497 m though still under construction as of this 27th. Everyday there are so many visitors or tourists who observe the construction of the tower from the foot.