The Tokyo Tower emoji is the bright red-and-white lattice icon that screams “I’m in Japan!” even before you post your sushi pic. On Apple/iOS, it’s a clean, straight-on silhouette with bold red trusses, white bands, a slightly flared base, and a tall antenna spike on top—no sky or scenery, just the tower flexing solo. It’s instantly recognizable as the OG Tokyo skyline star, the one that looks like the Eiffel Tower’s stylish cousin who got into broadcasting.
People drop 🗼 to announce travel plans, humblebrag jet-lag posts, or to set an anime vibe: “I’m in my Tokyo arc.” It pairs perfectly with 🌸, 🍣, 🍜, and 🚆 for a full itinerary, and shows up in romantic captions for observation-deck date energy. Meme-wise, it doubles as “Eiffel Tower but make it Japan,” the IRL Wi‑Fi signal booster joke, or a dramatic backdrop for kaiju/Godzilla gags.
Culturally, it’s a mid-20th-century icon painted in aviation-rule red and white, beloved even after the taller Skytree arrived—think classic, nostalgic, movie-montage vibes. In texts, it can read flirty (“meet me at the top”), aspirational (“next stop: Tokyo”), or playfully extra (“moving to Japan after one J‑drama, bye”). When you want neon-city dreams, skyline aesthetics, or a quick shorthand for all things Tokyo, this emoji does the heavy lifting—antenna and all.
Definition
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Emoji History The emoji code/ image log of changes.
This emoji was part of the proprietary / non-standardized emoji set first introduced by Japanese carriers like Softbank. These emojis became part of the Apple iPhone starting in iOS 2.2 as an unlockable feature on handsets sold in English speaking countries.
In iOS 5 / OSX 10.7, the underlying code that the Apple OS generates for this emoji was changed.
Emoji General Information
Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank)
1477 of 2393
Apple/iOS Picture
Google Android Picture
Google Hangouts Picture
Twitter.com Picture
LG Emoji Picture
Samsung Emoji Picture
Phantom Open Emoji Picture
Not created yet
ASCII Conversion
"Short Code" Name
:tokyo_tower:
Keywords
Previous Names:
Tokyo tower Tokyo Tower
Tokeo Tower
Unicode Category Information
Unicode Category
Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs
Unicode Range
1F300–1F5FF
Unicode Subcategory
Cultural Symbols
Proposed Unicode Information & Notes
Unicode Category
Artifacts
Unicode Subcategory
Cultural Symbols
Names & Annotations
TOKYO TOWER Old name: EMOJI COMPATIBILITY SYMBOL-2
Symbol Information
U+1F5FC proposed
Proposal Identifier
e-4C4
Character Mapping/Crosswalk Notes
DoCoMo
[東京タワー]
KDDI
#228 東京タワー 「東京tawaa」 U+E4C0 SJIS-F699 JIS-7579
Softbank
#338 #old432 東京タワー 「東京tawaa」 U+E509 SJIS-FBA9
Emoji Character Encoding Data
Emoji Code Version
iOS 5 - Current
UTF-8 Unicode Character(s)
🗼
UTF-8 Character Count
1
Character(s) In Input
AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS)
🗼
Decimal HTML Entity
🗼
Hexadecimal HTML Entity
🗼
Hex Code Point(s)
1f5fc
Formal Unicode Notation
U+1F5FC
Decimal Code Point(s)
128508
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xF0 0x9F 0x97 0xBC
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
F0 9F 97 BC
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
360 237 227 274
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0xD83D 0xDDFC
UTF-16 Hex
d83dddfc
UTF-16 Dec
55357 56828
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x0001F5FC
UTF-32 Hex
01F5FC
UTF-32 Dec
128508
Python Src
u"\U0001F5FC"
PHP Src
"\xf0\x9f\x97\xbc"
C/C++/Java Src
"\uD83D\uDDFC"
Emoji Character Encoding Data (equivalent or similiar)
