Sky Tree

It's probably the first thing you see jutting out of the city as you approach from any airport or highway. The damn thing's enormous.
Tokyo Sky Tree caps at a total of 634 meters and broadcasts all major TV channels through Tokyo. It's the tallest tower in the world and second tallest structure after the Burj Khalifa in Dubai. It's only been completed in May 2012 though, and God knows it was impossible to get in, what with the monstrous lines and whatnot.
 It's been almost a full year now, though, and the skies are clear enough that we'll get a good view from the observation deck, and so off we are, my brother and I, to conquer Tokyo's obligatory sky phallus, with nothing standing in our way but an easily endured 40 minute line.

Everything the light touches is our kingdom. That dark place full of shadows? That's Roppongi.  You must never go there.

Totally necessary!

Of course, the Sky Tree is kept running by tourist consumer-minions like you and I. It costs 2000¥ to go up the the first observation deck and another 1000¥ to rise the next hundred meters to the second. You can get your picture taken at all the best picture-designated spots for another 1200¥ too. Geez, is that your hand in my pocket I feel, or am I just that excited to be here?
 There's a small number of cafes and restaurants as well as the obligatory souvenir shop up there, priced all relatively expensively. Of course, chances are if you climbed the Sky Tree you're mostly here for the view upon Tokyo, and I can't complain in that department. On a clear day you can see Mount Fuji on top of everything else in the city that the tower dwarfs. Although we visited both decks, the top one does little to add to the already more-than-sufficiently complete view offered by the first, which even has a glass floor at its bottom!