By MASATAKA YAMAURA/ Staff Writer
October 15, 2025 at 07:00 JST
The assistant monitors the visibility of Tokyo Tower, 17 kilometers away, on the schoolhouse rooftop at Seikei Junior and Senior High School in Musashino, western Tokyo, on Sept. 22. The tower’s silhouette was visible by the side of a skyscraper that day. (Masataka Yamaura)
Visible evidence that the air is cleaner in Tokyo today than years past is that Tokyo Tower can be glimpsed most days of the year from a meteorological observatory located some 17 kilometers in the distance. [Read More]
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