The colourful Children’s Day koinobori carp streamers are an annual sight at Tokyo Tower, and this year you can see them at the main entrance from March 25 through Golden Week until May 6.

Passers-by stop and stare at the ramshackle, hand-built concrete tower that looks like it has been lifted right out of a Japanese animation and dropped onto a real-life Tokyo street. Its creator ...

It recalls the old Musashi Province, which covered a large area including Tokyo, Saitama and part of Kanagawa Prefecture, according to the Skytree website. The name ... defines a tower as a ...