What colour is the Tokyo tower?

At first, I thought the answer was a straight forward white and red.

After all it looked like white and red to me.

image credits to the Japanese Wikipedia.

 

And the miniature Tokyo Tower nanoblock thingy i got from my sis and friend for my bday last year looked red and white too...

 

But meh… turns out that the answer wasn’t so simple after all. Its not red… but orange! Huh ORANGE? That's so wrong! Was my first thought too… but turns out that its this special International Orange… as wikipedia explains. Why international orange? To comply with air safely regulations. Wiki says that there's 3 variations of the international orange, 1 for aerospace, one for engineering… and a slightly lighter version of the engineering one was painted on the golden bridge to increase visibility to ships. Yes, all info taken from wikipedia… its quite an interesting read… And while you're at it you might want to read the article on Tokyo Tower too. 

Its not in the article though, but there were times when the tokyo tower was lighted up most splendidly in multiple colours (rather than just one colour as the photos in wiki shows). In 2008 it was lighted up in all 7 colours of the rainbow for the 50th anniversary of the tower.Credits to Japanese wiki.

 

And of cos… last year the tower was given Arashi colours for the Hana Arashi campaign ;)