Tokyo: Skytree Guided Tour with Tembo Deck & Galleria Entry

See Tokyo from one of its highest observation experiences while discovering the engineering, design, and city story behind Tokyo Skytree.

Instead of simply taking an elevator to the top, begin by learning why the 634-meter tower was built, how traditional Japanese design influenced its shape, and how its structure responds to the challenges of building at extraordinary height.

Then travel to the 350-meter Tembo Deck and continue through the glass-walled Tembo Galleria from 445 to 450 meters.

Your guide will help identify Tokyo’s neighborhoods and landmarks, assist with casual photographs, and explain how the vast city below is organized.

Begin with the story behind Tokyo Skytree

Meet your guide at the confirmed meeting point inside Tokyo Skytree Town.

Before heading to the observation decks, visit SKYTREE GALLERY on the first floor when operating conditions allow.

The free exhibition introduces the construction, structure, and development of Tokyo Skytree using photographs and displays from the building process.

Tokyo Skytree opened in 2012 as a 634-meter freestanding broadcasting tower.

One reason for constructing a much taller broadcasting tower was the increasing number of high-rise buildings in central Tokyo, which created challenges for terrestrial broadcasting signals.

Discover Japanese design in a modern tower

Tokyo Skytree is not simply a vertical steel structure.

Its design incorporates curves inspired by traditional Japanese architecture, including forms known as sori and mukuri.

At ground level, the tower begins with a triangular footprint before gradually transforming toward a circular shape higher above the city.

Your guide will explain how these choices combine structural requirements with Japanese architectural aesthetics.

See how 634 meters is supported

Building a freestanding tower almost twice the height of Tokyo Tower required new approaches to structural engineering.

Learn about the tower’s steel framework, foundations, vibration-control concepts, and the combination of modern engineering with ideas associated with traditional Japanese construction.

The goal is not to turn the visit into an engineering lecture, but to give you enough context that the structure looks different once you see it from above and through the Glass Floor.

Enter with your observation tickets arranged

Your tour includes admission to both:

• Tembo Deck

• Tembo Galleria

Since April 2026, eligible advance tickets can be used as QR codes for direct admission without first exchanging them for paper tickets at the ticket counter.

This removes the need to purchase a standard ticket separately.

However, this is not a guaranteed skip-the-line experience. Security checks, ticket gates, elevators, and observation floors may still have queues during busy periods.

Reach the 350-meter Tembo Deck

Ride the elevator to the Tembo Deck.

Floor 350 offers panoramic views through large windows surrounding the observation level.

From this height, Tokyo’s scale becomes much easier to understand.

Instead of seeing individual streets as you do from a normal rooftop, major rivers, railway corridors, business districts, residential neighborhoods, and clusters of skyscrapers begin to form one continuous urban landscape.

Your guide will help orient you using the geography below.

Understand Tokyo from above

Depending on weather and visibility, your guide may help you identify areas such as:

• Asakusa

• Sumida River

• Ueno

• Central Tokyo

• Tokyo Bay

• Shinjuku

• Tokyo Tower

• Surrounding eastern Tokyo neighborhoods

Visibility changes every day.

Mount Fuji, sunsets, specific landmarks, and distant mountains cannot be guaranteed.

Continue to the Tembo Galleria

From Floor 350, ride the dedicated elevator to Floor 445.

The Tembo Galleria begins at approximately 445 meters and follows a gently rising, glass-walled corridor toward Floor 450.

Walking through the curved passage creates a very different experience from standing on a conventional observation floor.

The official highest visitor point is Sorakara Point at 451.2 meters.

Reach Sorakara Point

Continue upward through the Galleria toward Sorakara Point.

At this height, buildings that appeared large from the ground become part of an enormous urban pattern stretching toward the horizon.

Your guide can help you compare the perspective from 450 meters with the closer, more detailed view from the 350-meter Tembo Deck.

Get help with photographs

Your guide can assist with casual photographs throughout the experience using your own smartphone or camera.

Useful locations may include:

• Window-side skyline views

• Tembo Deck

• Tembo Galleria

• Sorakara Point

• Selected interior displays

• Glass Floor

This is not a professional photoshoot.

Specific empty backgrounds, sunset photographs, or photographs without other visitors cannot be guaranteed.

Experience the Glass Floor at 340 meters

On the way down, visit Floor 340 of the Tembo Deck.

The Glass Floor measures approximately 2 by 3 meters and allows visitors to look directly through the floor toward the steel structure and city far below.

This is also a useful moment to connect the structural explanation from the beginning of the tour with the tower you are physically standing inside.

Stay after the guided experience

There is currently no fixed time limit once you have entered the observation decks.

After the guided portion finishes, you may continue exploring the observation areas at your own pace before exiting.

Once you leave the observation decks, however, re-entry is not permitted.

Your guide can also provide brief recommendations for Tokyo Solamachi, which contains more than 300 shops and restaurants beneath Tokyo Skytree.