Dumb Otaku » Landmarks http://dumbotaku.com Sat, 23 Oct 2010 17:15:28 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Sapparo TV Tower http://dumbotaku.com/2009/04/15/sapparo-tv-tower/ http://dumbotaku.com/2009/04/15/sapparo-tv-tower/#comments Wed, 15 Apr 2009 23:15:23 +0000 DumbOtaku http://dumbotaku.com/?p=276

History

The TV Tower was built in 1957 and cost 170 Million Yen. (Approximately 1,700,000 USD) It is used as a repeater which is an antenna that receives a signal boosts it and pushes it back out to another area. It isn’t a main broadcast tower.

The signature digital clocks on all 4 sides were introduced in 1961 to draw attention to the tower and the town, and seemed to work. It was installed 65 meters up so all could see it easy. Amazingly it has only had to be fixed 2 times in 1998 and 2006.










]]> http://dumbotaku.com/2009/04/15/sapparo-tv-tower/feed/ 1 2009 Snow Festival Prep http://dumbotaku.com/2009/02/02/2009-snow-festival-prep/ http://dumbotaku.com/2009/02/02/2009-snow-festival-prep/#comments Tue, 03 Feb 2009 01:05:41 +0000 DumbOtaku http://www.dumbotaku.com/?p=97

I recently posted on Hokkaido and talked a bit about the Sapporo Snow Festival with a bit about what it was.  Here is a blog post by someone that took a few snapshots of the prep work for it.  Please visit the site and look through all the images.

http://thiessentwosomejapan.blogspot.com/2009/02/makings-of-snow-festival.html

Here are a couple interesting ones.

Again please visit http://thiessentwosomejapan.blogspot.com/ for more images.

I hope to go to Japan someday to be able to bring you some of these cool pics.

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