"Tsutenkaku" literally means "tower reaching Heaven", and built in 1956 in Osaka with its total height of 103 m and the main observation deck at a height of 91 m above the ground, you can understand why...! ;o)
Download + build your own papercraft Osaka Tsutenkaku tower (by Hitachi):
https://web.archive.org/web/20130601000000*/http://www.hitachi.co.jp/area/kansai/portal/publicity/tutenkaku/paper-craft.pdf
(archived: use the times dates of the Wayback Machine at different times to click the top click the square image button below the menu on the right on the Hitachi webpage for different PDF parts files!)
https://web.archive.org/web/20130601000000*/http://www.hitachi.co.jp/area/kansai/portal/publicity/tutenkaku/paper-craft.pdf
(archived: use the times dates of the Wayback Machine at different times to click the top click the square image button below the menu on the right on the Hitachi webpage for different PDF parts files!)
That is clearly a piggybank, if you notice the slit on the main observatory, both in that image and on the pattern ("▼ COIN").
ReplyDeleteYes, when I was reading about the Tsutenkaku tower, I read somewhere that if you buy a ticket to go upto to the observatory in the tower, it includes a paper model of the tower that can be used as a piggy bank! ;o)
DeleteI think this is the same model, and it has the same coin slit, only different colours (that one was almost entirely blue).