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Tokyo Sky TreeThe sky-scraping 2,080-foot-tall <a href="http://www.tokyo-skytree.jp/english/" target="_blank">Tokyo Skytree</a> just officially opened this week, making it the world's tallest tower according to the Guinness Book of Records. The soaring needle is the world’s largest communication tower, and the <a href="http://inhabitat.com/azerbaijans-avesta-group-unveils-plan-to-build-new-worlds-tallest-tower/" target="_blank">second highest building</a> to boot. Click ahead for more photos of this stunning building!1
Tokyo Sky TreeLocated on the east side of Tokyo in the Asakusa traditional district, the Tokyo Sky Tree rises in gleaming silver, dwarfing the city blocks around it.2
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Tokyo Sky TreeIt even <a href="http://inhabitat.com/nakheel-tower-by-woods-bagot-will-be-worlds-tallest-tower/" target="_blank">trumps Toronto’s CN Tower</a> by almost 1,000 feet!4
Tokyo Sky TreeTokyo tourism hopes that the <a href="http://inhabitat.com/adrian-smith-gordon-gill-announces-it-will-design-the-mile-high-kingdom-tower-in-dubai/" target="_blank">Sky Tree tower </a>attracts tourists like the CN Tower does, as tourism has dwindled since the Fukushima disaster.5
Tokyo Sky TreeIt's a likely prospect, since the height of the tower is only eclipsed by Dubai’s <a href="http://inhabitat.com/mission-impossible-burj-khalifa-tower-park-worlds-tallest-building-makes-its-movie-debut/" target="_blank">Burj Khalifa</a>.6
Tokyo Sky Tree photoThe tower itself cost $806 million, not including the communications structures inside, and it took 580,000 workers to construct.7
