Kyoto Tower of (not so much) Terror

It's a tower but, like Kyoto in general, more modest. Without the flashy lights of Tokyo or the price tag.

Observations:

Kyoto has less people in it than Brisbane but it's more compact, being a river valley surrounded on three sides by mountains.

This tower is actually not that tall but is still the highest point in Kyoto because every building in the downtown area is almost uniformly a dozen or so floors, while the rest of Kyoto has a high proportion of traditional buildings of 3-4 stories.

Essentially you can see all of Kyoto from this tower.

It's not very big but they have installed interactive touch screens in the observation deck that can be switched to multiple languages.

Some tourists rather unkindly call this a tourist trap but it's right next to the gigantic Kyoto Station and it's cheap - so it's not really a trap if it's convenient and cheap...

Kaiju Collected:

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