The Tokyo Tower emoji is a lattice tower modelled on the Eiffel Tower and, at 333 metres, a little taller than the original. It's painted in white and international orange bands to satisfy Japanese aviation rules rather than left bare metal, and people genuinely mix the two towers up on sight — if the tower in your text is banded orange and white, it's Tokyo, not Paris.
What 🗼 means
A metal tower with a bright red body a solid square structure in the upper narrowing half, followed by a couple of ring-like structures and finally ending in a pinnacle with a red and white striped top.
The 🗼 Tokyo Tower emoji is a representation of the second tallest construction in Japan. Replicating the Eiffel tower to a certain extent, this emoji can signify the Japanese architectural feat, tourism in Japan, and a former broadcasting mode across various platforms.
How and when to use it
- A tower refers to anything that's tall, you could use 🗼 to suggest someone who's mighty tall. For instance, "Dude. The date went AMAZING. He's a frikking tower! 🗼 How tall could he possibly be!".
- If someone or something was 'towering' over you, then too, you could use 🗼 to narrate the incident. "I feel so tiny in this new city. EVERYTHING SEEMS SO TOWERING 🗼".
- Speaking of 'towering', 🗼 can also have its own flavor in the sexting framework (no puns intended, please). This framework is easier to understand if you've read E.L.James.
- Bringing back the first point - since 'tower' describes the stature of something, you can use 🗼 while posting or reposting pictures and/or videos of stacked burgers, a tower of candy, a tower of waffles, anything along these lines too.
- You can use 🗼 to refer to someone or something that's dominating and/or intimidating too. For example, "She is tiny, alright. But she can be towering in her own ways🗼".
Other Names
- 🗼 Pillar
- 🗼 Obelisk
- 🗼 Japan's Version of the Eiffel Tower
- 🗼 Steeple
- 🗼 Spire
- 🗼 Tokyo Tawa
- 🗼 Japan Radio Tower
- 🗼 Nippon Denpato
The lowdown
- Category
- Travel & Places › place-building
- Codepoints
U+1F5FC- Emoji version
- Emoji 0.6
- Shortcodes
:tokyo_tower:- Keywords
- Tokyo, tower
How it looks across platforms
Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.
⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — 🗼 Tokyo Tower or 🏳️🌈 Rainbow Flag?
Runs with a crowd
🗼 keeps company in travel emojis — tap-to-copy sets for when one emoji isn't enough.