Seto Digital Tower is a 244.7 m 803 ft tall digital broadcasting tower in
Seto, Aichi
is a city in Aichi Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 127,659 in 56,573 households, and a population density of 1,146 persons per km². The total area was .
Geography
Seto is located in the hilly northern region of Aic ...
,
Japan. In 2011, the tower replaced the
Nagoya TV Tower
The (formerly but still referred to as the ) is a TV tower in Nagoya, central Japan.
History
It is the oldest TV tower in Japan, and was completed in 1954. It is located in the centre of Hisaya Ōdori Park. The tower is 180 metres high, and h ...
; the Nagoya TV Tower previously had the role of broadcasting in the Nagoya area.
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The tower is of a unique design not know to have been used elsewhere before. Six outer steel legs provide support and structural stability to a central lattice structure akin to those found in guyed lattice masts.
See also
*Lattice tower
A lattice tower or truss tower is a freestanding vertical framework tower. This construction is widely used in transmission towers carrying high voltage electric power lines, in radio masts and towers (a self-radiating tower or as a support for ...
References
File:Seto Digital Tower.jpg - Wikimedia Commons
External links
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Buildings and structures in Aichi Prefecture
Communication towers in Japan
Radio masts and towers
Towers completed in 2011
2011 establishments in Japan
Seto, Aichi
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