Landmark & Tower · Shinsekai

Tsutenkaku Tower 通天閣

The steel symbol of Shinsekai, a 108-metre tower first built in 1912 and rebuilt in 1956, with neon lights, a lucky Billiken statue, an open-air deck on top and a 60-metre tube slide that shoots you out at street level.

Hours9:00-21:45 (main deck last entry 21:15; outdoor deck last entry 21:35)

ClosedOpen daily; New Year period (2026-12-30 to 2027-01-03) prices rise to 1,800/900

PriceAdult (15+): ¥1,500
Child (5-14): ¥800
Tower Slider (adult 15-65): ¥1,100

Getting thereEbisucho Station (Sakaisuji Line), 3 min; Dobutsuen-mae Station (Midosuji Line), 6 min

Time needed1 hour

Best timeDusk, when the neon comes on

Address1-18-6 Ebisuhigashi, Naniwa-ku, Osaka

Websitetsutenkaku.co.jp

About

Tsutenkaku means "tower reaching heaven". The original 1912 tower, inspired by the Eiffel Tower and Paris, stood over Shinsekai (New World), an amusement district of the Meiji era modelled on Paris and Coney Island; it was dismantled in 1943 for wartime metal and rebuilt in 1956 by Naito Tachu, also the engineer of Tokyo Tower. Its neon, including the Hitachi advertisement on its sides and a weather forecast in coloured lights at the top, is the backdrop to Shinsekai's kushikatsu alleys. Inside, the Golden Observatory on the 5th floor holds the Billiken statue, and the Tip the Tsutenkaku outdoor deck juts out at 94.5 m. The Tower Slider, a 60 m spiralling slide from the 3rd floor to the basement, takes about 10 seconds.

Highlights

5th-floor Golden Observatory and the original Billiken statue
Tip the Tsutenkaku open-air deck at 94.5 m
Tower Slider, a 60 m tube slide down the tower
Neon top that shows the next days weather in colour
View down onto Shinsekai's retro streets

Tips

The classic photo is from Shinsekai's main street (Tsutenkaku Hondori) looking north at dusk.
Buy Tower Slider tickets early on weekends: time slots sell out.
Rub Billiken's feet for luck; Shinsekai has dozens of copies, but the one inside is the original.
Eat kushikatsu at the foot of the tower afterward, and do not double-dip the sauce.

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