*Introduction of Kobe Port tower!!

Japanese mapKobe

This place is Kobe Port Tower

This is a Kobe Port Tower.This tower was designed by Mr. Takeo Naka and Mr. Koichi Ito.This took 330 million yen to build this tower.

This tower is 108 meters tall!!

This tower was renovated from 2009 to 2010.This is now handicap-accessible. This picture is an entrance of it.

He is Mr. Takeo Naka.He was born in 1907 in Tokyo.He was graduated from Tokyo University and his major was architecture.He got a prize by designing Kobe port tower from an academic society of Japan architecture in 1964.He worked as a professor at Tokyo university.He passed away in 2008.

This is a night view of the tower.We didn’t take this picture. But I thought that it is very beautiful.

He is a character of the Port Tower.His name is Captain Tower.He was born on June 19, 2008.His height is 2.5m.His weight is 85kg.

Our topic was about “architecture” so we thought about researching about architectures in Kobe. We thought Port tower is a great symbol of Kobe so we decided to research about Port tower, plus even though it is a famous architecture in Kobe we did not know anything about it.

Motivation for this project

CommentsAt first, we were not that interested in this building even though it is a symbol of Kobe, but once we started researching about Port Tower, we wanted to know more and more about it.  Now we are proud of ourselves that at least we can tell people from other city about Port Tower.

SourcesUniversity of Tokyo institute faculty of technology

Kobe Port Tower is wikipediaKobe character town