Tokyo tower Emoji

Travel

A tall, lattice-style radio tower painted with distinct red and white segments. It is a direct depiction of the real-world Tokyo Tower located in the Minato district of Japan.

Usage Context

Used to pinpoint a location in Japan, talk about travel plans, or discuss city landmarks. It is frequently sent alongside other travel-related icons like ✈️ or 🇯🇵 to clarify the geographic intent behind a message.

History

Added in Unicode 6.0 in 2010, this icon was included to broaden the representation of global landmarks within mobile messaging. Its design is based on the 1,093-foot communications and observation tower built in 1958, which was heavily inspired by the architecture of the Eiffel Tower.

Details

Glyph

🗼

Unicode

U+1F5FC

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f5fc:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDDFC;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category Travel

Subcategory place-building

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Google Noto License

Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0

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