The plan in Ep.2 included an item reading "a tower modelled on the Eiffel Tower in Paris." What actually went up was stranger than that.
A tower made of two
The first Tsutenkaku was completed on 3 July 1912, together with Shinsekai’s Luna Park Fact. Its form looked like the upper part of the Eiffel Tower set on the Arc de Triomphe, and it stood about 75 metres Fact. Two of Europe’s defining symbols were stacked into one structure. That eclectic image compresses what Shinsekai was — a new world assembled by importing and mixing the latest from outside Estimate.
A fire that began at its feet
The tower did not last. On 16 January 1943 it was damaged by a fire that spread from an accidental blaze at the Ohashiza cinema at its foot Fact. From 20 February that year the steel frame was cut apart and dismantled Fact. Thirty-one years after it opened.
The plan’s first deletion
The order described in Ep.2 begins here: the things on the drawings vanish first. Luna Park had already gone in 1923 (Ep.4), and now the tower too Fact. As of 1943, Shinsekai had lost both of the symbols that had made it Shinsekai Estimate.
So what you are looking at
The tower standing at the centre of Shinsekai now is not the first. It is the second Tsutenkaku, rebuilt in 1956, with a different designer, form and height (Ep.5) Fact. The tower travellers photograph was put up after the original was gone. In this district, distinguishing what was originally here from what is here now turns out to be necessary more often than you would expect.