The Tokyo Sky Tree, the city’s new digital broadcast antenna, became the world’s tallest free-standing television tower this week when it overtook China’s 600-meter (1,968.5 feet) Canton Tower. By ...

An estimated 200,000 people braved heavy rain in the Japanese capital on Tuesday to take part in the opening of the record-breaking Tokyo Sky Tree. The tallest free-standing communications tower in ...

(AP) TOKYO - The world's tallest tower and Japan's biggest new landmark, the Tokyo Skytree, opened to the public on Tuesday. Nearly 8,000 visitors were expected to take high-speed elevators up to the ...

TOKYO – Three inches of glass. That’s all that separated me and a small group of tourists from the great plunge. We were standing some 1,500 feet above the world’s most populous city on the tippy-top ...

Japan is marking Children's Day on Tuesday. About 1,000 carp-shaped streamers are on display near a Tokyo landmark to wish ...

TOKYO--Nearly a year after the magnitude-9.0 quake that pummeled Japan, construction of the world's tallest tower, the Tokyo Sky Tree, is now complete. Builder Obayashi, which recently announced plans ...

Tokyo is often introduced as the land of the rising sun, but spend an evening here and you realise it’s just as much about what happens after sunset. The skyline shifts, the city lights up, and ...

Cherry blossom season in Tokyo is often associated with bustling parks filled with picnic blankets and drifting petals. Yet one of the most memorable ways to experience Sakura unfolds along a scenic ...