Old Shopping Streets at the Foot of the Tokyo Sky Tree

The Tokyo Skytree, the world’s tallest TV tower at 634 meters, is located in an old residential area dominated by small houses and shops. It was designed to avoid tall buildings that would disturb radio waves passing through. In the area, there are several local shopping streets. They had been declining for decades due to the flourishing of major supermarket chains and large shopping mall chains. They hoped that the opening of the tower would galvanize them with newly built tower’s attraction. Howeve