Riveting Facts About The World’s Most Iconic Buildings

The Japanese Way

There’s nothing random about the Japanese way of doing things, it seems. When planning to build the Tokyo Skytree, the nation’s tallest communications tower, designers decided upon the height of 634m for a very specific reason. In Japanese, the digits of the number read as “mu-sa-shi.” And where is the tower located? In the province once known as Musashi, of course!

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