Overlooked -- and undervalued

[Hachiko]

If there is one major spot in Japan that visitors somehow tend not to make a beeline for, it is Nagoya.

For some, an ascent of Nagoya's TV tower (above) may be a high point of their visit; for others it may be Osu Kannon Temple.

The Japan National Tourist Organization confidently declares in its leaflet on Nagoya that the country's fourth-biggest city "abounds in places of scenic and historic interest." But then that leaflet lists as second among Nagoya's must-see attractions a TV tower, which -- even the most sympathetic observer would have to concede -- does share considerable points of similarity with every other TV mast they have ever seen.

Japan Times

 

[dadako]

yes its strange how japanese value modern over traditional as something they would like to see.

tokyo tower is featured in a lot of romantic tv dramas, in reality its nowhere near as pretty as blackpool or paris' towers, which succeed from an earlier industrial revolution