Mount Everest is the highest point above sea level, but because the Earth bulges at the equator, the summit of a volcano in Ecuador sits farther from the centre of the planet, making it the closest piece of land on Earth to outer space.
Mount Everest: 8,849metres; Mount Fuji: 3,776m; Ben Nevis: 1,345m
So everything is relative. The Skytree comms tower is only 634m high, built to broadcast signals around the Tokyo area. Which given the size of the city and the height of buildings means going up.
We only reached 450m at the viewing platform. Good to read they slow down the effluent from the toilets, else the fan might get knocked over. The lift wouldn’t be allowed in Wales as it goes at 600m/min, aka 22.3mph.
Tomorrow the first of two full rest days in Tokyo. Given the greater metropolitan area has a population of 38million and the UK population is 68million, we might focus. The third largest city in the world (London is no32), it hosts about 1/3 of the Japanese population.
Which means it has a phenonmenal sewage system…….
Travelling reflections 