History
The TV Tower was built in 1957 and cost 170 Million Yen. (Approximately 1,700,000 USD) It is used as a repeater which is an antenna that receives a signal boosts it and pushes it back out to another area. It isn’t a main broadcast tower.
The signature digital clocks on all 4 sides were introduced in 1961 to draw attention to the tower and the town, and seemed to work. It was installed 65 meters up so all could see it easy. Amazingly it has only had to be fixed 2 times in 1998 and 2006.
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It looks much like Nagoya’s TV Tower.
(P.S. I think you mean Sapporo, not Sapparo
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