Built in the center of the Hisaya Odori Park in 1954 the tower has two functions of TV wave transmission from the 180m high antenna and as the first observation balcony in Japan. You can overlook not only the entire city of Nagoya but also the Nobi Plains, Ise Bay, the Suzuka and Yoro mountains and Mikawa Bay as well as the Chubu Sangaku mountains, if the sky is clear, from the Observation Balcony provided at 100m high from the ground.

The famous movie monster, Godzilla pulled the tower down in Mothra vs. Godzilla (1964), and twenty-eight years later, it was destroyed again in the 1992 remake, Godzilla vs. Mothra. This time around, it is demolished by the monster Battra, when the creature attacks Nagoya.