) is ..Tsutenkaku (.. belvedere that builts in the center part in the vicinity of the new world in Osaka Prefecture Osaka City Naniwa Ward. Registering material cultural asset in country. It is familiar as one of the symbols of Osaka, and famous as the tourist spot.
Design and structure
* Main body: Iron frame make (a part of iron frame ferroconcrete make)
o ..tower.. height: 100m on the ground
o Width: 24m
o Between legs: 24m.
* Observatory: Iron frame reinforced concrete Concut make (two surrounding
glass -lined stories)
o Height: Even 84m and the second floor floor are 87.5m even in the
first floor floor.
* Supplementary building: Iron frame ferroconcrete make
* The performance: The earthquake of the Great Kanto Earthquake class and
the strong wind of 70 meters in the velocity of the wind can be stood.
Outline
Present Tsutenkaku was completed by the second generation in 1956(1956). Sightseeing..Ltd...Ltd.. It is managed. Height including the lightning rod is 103m(The height of the tower is 100m). The designer is Naito multi relations that handle the Nagoya television tower and Tokyo Tower, etc. almost made a simultaneous period. It is Okumura Construction that constructed construction.
It is a Confucianism person, and Fujisawa south Gaku that named, "Tsutenkaku" in the meaning "High
building that runs to the heaven" at the beginning of the Meiji era.
Hitachi Ltd. of the total electric machine enterprise has published an ad to the side in the tower since 1957 a finished year of Yoc (1957). It is assumed that it is a start that the speculation of sightseeing in Tsutenkaku to look for the major company that can publish an ad by extending over a long period of time for Hitachi and the funding to have tried to advance to Osaka in rivalry with the major electric machine enterprise (Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., SANYO Electric, and Sharp, etc.) in local at that time agreed with coming put on the advertisement by Hitachi. Detaching (Refer to the Cda article) and the citizens who felt the sense of incompatibility for the signboard without the mark at that time were not few in 2001 when Hitachi had discontinued it before though "Child mark of the turtle" that was the company pin of Hitachi had been put on the upper part of the advertisement either.
It interrupted, the environmental pollution etc. such as the urban ozones became factors, too and one million people were decreased sharply to about 200,000 people in 1975 in 1965 in 1956 when Ta was gotten in the second generation Tsutenkaku though the visitor had been exceeding 1.55 million people during year. The recovery tendency was gradually shown afterwards, there were a television program that made Tsutenkaku a stage and a rise among which the spit cutlet was popular, too and it recovered by one million people or more in 900,000 people and fiscal year 2007 in 2006. As for attendance figures increase in Tsutenkaku, sightseeing in Tsutenkaku is one to comment, "A young person might be requesting the emotion that seems to be Osaka from the new world".
It shines when 0 minutes per hour have passed in addition since the entire tower was colored because of the light of the neon based on the golden color and white at nighttime by the gradation with a vivid face of a large clock on the tower east side side. Neon is remodeled every about five years, and the present one is the 12th generation. Moreover, the neon light that shows next day's weather forecast by combining four colors lights to the tower top (fine = white and cloudy weather = bitter orange and rain = blue and snow = pink). The device of this neon light is connected with Osaka District Meteorological Observatories by the lease line, and is the one that the mechanism that forecast is displayed based on information from there it, was produced by Hitachi Ltd. in 1979(1979), and set up.
It was removed when the neon of this age was renewed, and the belt in three main lines in side was installed afterwards though it hung under the view room out the chapter of the monogram company of Hitachi Ltd. in 2001.
It was updated made in Hitachi in 2001 though an elevator at that time at the time of completed the second generation was made of the Orient Ortis elevator (present and Japanese Ortis elevator).
When the 50th rebuilding anniversary came in 2006, repair work was done. The color of neon was changed besides the shape of a large clock was changed to the octagon by Maru, and it came to stand out more.
