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Art Tower

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😐 Anyway, it is very narrow, there may be an impact if you look from the outside. I think it would be impossible to have a leisurely view of the landscape without a bench. First of all, the windows are small and the view is not good because of the design. It is hard to see because the position of the... People often mention tower, Mito, elevator, observation, small, deck, window, windows, good, earthquake,


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1 Chome-6-8 Gokencho, Mito, Ibaraki 310-0063, Japan

Website

www.arttowermito.or.jp

Contact

+81 29-227-8111

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4.10 (115 reviews)

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Working Hours

  • Tuesday: 9:30 AM to 6 PM
  • Wednesday: 9:30 AM to 6 PM
  • Thursday: 9:30 AM to 6 PM
  • Friday: 9:30 AM to 6 PM
  • Saturday: 9:30 AM to 7 PM
  • Sunday: 9:30 AM to 7 PM
  • Monday: Closed

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  • 4/5 Jハードラー 8 months ago on Google • 1844 reviews
    Admission fee: 200 yen for adults, 100 yen for children. A 100m tall tower commemorating the 100th anniversary of Mito's establishment as a city. A symbol of Mito. Parking is underground and free for up to 30 minutes. The observation deck looks out on the scenery through a small window. The visual effect makes you feel drunk.
    6 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 3/5 天野悠二 4 years ago on Google
    (Translated by Google) Anyway, it is very narrow, there may be an impact if you look from the outside. I think it would be impossible to have a leisurely view of the landscape without a bench. First of all, the windows are small and the view is not good because of the design. It is hard to see because the position of the window is high or low. The glass is also dirty and it's hard to clean. The elevator is slow. 2 minutes to the top? It may take. But tickets are cheap, so I think it's okay if you have time. (Original) とにかくめっちゃクチャ狭いです、外から見たほうがインパクトがあるかもしれません。ベンチもなくてのんびりと景色を眺めたいとかはまずできないと思います。そもそもデザインのせいで窓も小さくて眺望が良くないです。窓の位置が高かったり低かったりするから見るのは大変。ガラスも汚い、掃除しにくそうですね。エレベーターが遅いです。上まで2分?かかるかもしれません。でもチケットは安いので、時間があれば寄って行ってもいいと思います。
    7 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 なおつかりゅうじ 11 months ago on Google • 596 reviews
    It has been about 30 years since I first wanted to climb it. After buying a paid ticket at the reception desk, get on the elevator. It takes about 1 minute and 30 seconds to reach the observation deck. The observation room has many circular windows. By looking through the windows, you can enjoy the view from a height of approximately 86.4 meters. The experience of riding the elevator seems to be long, but it's also fun because you can see the internal structure of the tower through the elevator's transparent walls. According to the information posted on the tower, the height of the symbol tower is 100 meters, and the observation room is 86.4 meters. The structure is made of steel (500 mm in diameter and 21 to 60 mm thick), and the exterior is made of titanium panels.
    3 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 GRACE G. 1 year ago on Google
    水戸芸術館 アートタワー 水戸市制100周年を記念して地上100mの高さに設計されているみたいですね 一辺9.6mの正三角形で構成されチタン製外装 稜線をたどり三重螺旋が空に向かう龍のように感じるのは私だけでしょうか? 構造 地震や風の対策などの細部までこだわり建築構造設計なさっていたのですね✨ タワーだけでなく 広場(天然芝) コンサートホールATM ACM 劇場 現代美術ギャラリーなどの施設満載 設計 構造 立地と水戸市の財産的シンボルですね
    4 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 微分サークル 2 years ago on Google
    (Translated by Google) It is Mito Tower. It is lit up in Ukrainian colors. Is beautiful. Please take a look. (Original) 水戸タワーです。ウクライナカラーにライトアップされています。綺麗です。一度見てみてください。
    3 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 3/5 Murdoch 1 year ago on Google • 365 reviews
    I visited it while sightseeing in Mito, perhaps because it is the symbol tower of Mito. It's an eye-catching design. Apparently it's lit up at night, so I think it looks better in photos that way. It was a cloudy day and the photos tended to look unattractive with silver buildings against a white background, so I decided to play around with filters. The inside of the building can be accessed by elevator. As you can see from the outside, it's not an observation deck, so you can only look out through the many small and large windows, so you can't really say that the view is good, but it's 200 yen, so it's understandable. The elevator is made of glass so you can see outside! ? I expected that, but that was not the case, and I could only see the inside of the building. The unique appearance of this spot raises your expectations, but once you climb it, you'll be a little disappointed.
    2 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 t n. 9 months ago on Google • 1210 reviews
    When an earthquake occurs near Ibaraki Prefecture, Mito Tower will appear on TV earthquake warnings. I had always wanted to climb it someday, and I finally did. It has a good view at a height of 100m.

  • 4/5 Yoshio K. 6 months ago on Google • 641 reviews
    It is a symbol tower that always appears when an earthquake occurs in Mito. This is Mito. You can take the elevator up to the observation deck for 200 yen for adults and 100 yen for children. I thought I could see outside from the elevator, but I couldn't see it until I got to the observation deck. You can take a look inside the mysteriously shaped tower. You can see Kairakuen and Oarai area from the small round window. The pillars were slanted so I lost my sense of balance lol. I visited on a weekday morning, but there was no one there and it was comfortable. The tower itself is a work of art, so I think you should at least have the experience of seeing it from inside. The elevator ride from the ground to the observation deck takes about 90 seconds. Even if an earthquake were to occur while you were on the observatory, I don't think it would be a problem at all as long as there are pillars like this. There are no restrooms at the observation deck, so you will need to use the 1st floor of the tower. You can park your car in the art museum parking lot.
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Jerry B. 3 years ago on Google • 159 reviews
    Beautiful majestic serene
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 4/5 Toru S. 1 year ago on Google
    北関東で夜景を見たい時におすすめです 水戸の町並みが一望できます しかし、丸くて小さい窓は三脚は入らないし、角度がついているため窓にカメラを当てて撮影することもできません。 カメラ対策のために狙ってやっているとすれば凄いアイディアだと思います…
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 4/5 ぼのぼの 1 year ago on Google
    水戸の芸術館です。入館料200円です。障がい者は市町村縛りがあります。小さい窓で見るアート。外から見るには斬新な感じ。
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 2/5 徘爺 3 months ago on Google • 513 reviews New
    It was my first time going nearby. I didn't know that you could climb the tower, so I didn't go inside the facility, but I'd like to go next time. Too bad😢

  • 4/5 Nao K. 6 months ago on Google • 486 reviews
    I enjoyed Aozora Craft Ichi Autumn. This event is interesting because it features handmade one-of-a-kind items and you can talk directly with the artists. I guess it's a little smaller compared to the lawn square at Lake Senba.

  • 4/5 ロッキー 5 months ago on Google • 360 reviews
    It was my first visit to Mito, and I wondered what that tower was! I tried to approach it. It was lit up at night and was beautiful.

  • 5/5 Ben H. 1 year ago on Google • 214 reviews
    Fantastic

  • 4/5 トシ 2 months ago on Google • 178 reviews New
    It's rainbow colored and beautiful at night!

  • 4/5 Eshニム 5 years ago on Google • 94 reviews
    Great place

  • 5/5 神宮小鹿 1 month ago on Google • 74 reviews New
    Admission ticket 200 yen. You can clearly see the city of Mito.

  • 5/5 Nami 2 months ago on Google • 19 reviews New
    We recommend shooting from the back

  • 4/5 2F道秋 2 years ago on Google
    (Translated by Google) About 15 minutes on foot from the station, I have been to Mito many times, but I noticed it for the first time. It is lit up and beautiful. (Original) 駅から歩いて15分程、水戸には何回も来ていますが初めて存在に気が付きました。ライトアップされて綺麗です。

  • 1/5 飯島美恵子 2 months ago on Google • 6 reviews New
    It was closed It’s a shame〰️ I should have researched it before going!! ️

  • 3/5 domani c. 1 year ago on Google
    ホールのパイプオルガンは 荘厳な雰囲気を醸し出してます シンボルのタワー 2年ぶりにエレベーターで上れるようになったようです

  • 3/5 Anna P. 10 months ago on Google
    Pensé ver algo de arte dentro, pero solo es un cilindro con hoyos para ver la ciudad 🏙️ desde arriba.. al menos fue barato solo $200 yenes

  • 4/5 ねもとただし 4 years ago on Google
    (Translated by Google) Special exhibitions and pipe organs, chamber music and drama are attractive. It is a space that is neither a museum nor a museum due to the efforts of the mayor at the time who focused on art although it was a bit difficult to park. I heard that the symbolic tower was designed by Arata Isozaki, and it was impossible to clean the outer walls. (Original) 企画展とパイプオルガン、室内楽や演劇やら魅力的です。駐車場に少し苦労しますが芸術に注力した当時の市長さんの尽力による美術館でも博物館でも無い空間です。シンボリックなタワーは磯崎新氏によるもの、因みに外壁の掃除は不可能と聞いています。

  • 3/5 623 4 years ago on Google
    (Translated by Google) Sunday was very quiet. (Original) 日曜日なのに、とても静かでした?

  • 5/5 山口tossy 5 years ago on Google
    (Translated by Google) I went inside when I visited Mito Art Museum by inspection. At night, the tower illuminated by the light is also quite attractive ? (Original) 視察で水戸芸術館を訪れた際に、中に入りました。 夜、ライトに照らされたタワーもなかなか魅力的ですね?

  • 3/5 wataru 4 years ago on Google
    (Translated by Google) Mito stroll: better to see with the naked eye. (Original) 水戸散策❗️肉眼で観た方が良い。

  • 3/5 どろひろGoogle local g. 6 years ago on Google
    (Translated by Google) A building that can be made with construction paper. very nice. It looks simple, but it is geometric and modern. (Original) 画用紙でも作れる建物。すばらしいです。単純に見えますが幾何学的で近代的。

  • 4/5 Stanait O. 4 years ago on Google
    (Translated by Google) Artistic tower cool (Original) 芸術的なタワー かっこええ

  • 5/5 Emily L. 5 years ago on Google
    (Translated by Google) The subject matter of Mito and even Ibaraki. You can take an elevator to the tower. It costs 200 YEN because it’s not too expensive. It’s good to go up and have a look. The elevator is transparent and you can see the inside of the tower. The staff will introduce you in the elevator Some things about this tower The design of the top of the tower is also different from the general observatory. It is not a full circle of glass, but small round windows. There will be a sign next to it to explain where you can see from the window. The sign is also quite design. Pretty cute (Original) 水戶、以至於茨城的標的物。 塔是可以搭電梯到上面的,要200YEN,因為也不算貴,既然都來了就上去看看也是不錯的,電梯是透明的,可以看到塔的內部,工作人員會在電梯裡介紹關於這個塔的一些事情 塔頂設計也跟一般展望台不太一樣,不是一整圈玻璃,而是一個一個的小圓窗戶,旁邊還會貼字牌介紹從窗戶看出去的地方是哪裡,字牌也蠻有設計感蠻可愛的

  • 5/5 チャリコ 5 years ago on Google
    (Translated by Google) It is an artistic high tower in strange shape. Because it is thin to high, it is worried whether it will collapse with a typhoon or the like, but it is probably built by a fine architect. It is familiar with relay from the stationary camera of NHK Mito Broadcasting Station, it is a symbol of Mito city. I was shocked when I learned that there was no local branch of TV in prefectures nationwide. There are two local stations in Shizuoka prefecture! It is a recent story that I got an airport, Ibaraki prefecture can continue to understand how many last years in attraction ranking .... (¯ ▽ ¯;) The Mito art museum with this art tower sometimes holds a flea market at the plaza in the premises and it is quite fun because it sometimes finds eye-catching items and second-hand goods items. (o ^ ∀ ^ o) (Original) 不思議な形の芸術的な高いタワーです。 高い割には細いので、台風などで倒壊しないかと心配になりますが、ちゃんと立派な建築士さんに計算されて建てられているのでしょう。 NHK水戸放送局の固定カメラからの中継ではお馴染みで、水戸市のシンボルですね。 それより全国の都道府県で唯一テレビの地方局がない事を知った時は愕然としました。 (静岡県には2つも地方局があります!) 空港ができたのもつい最近の話で、茨城県が魅力度ランキングで何年も続けて最下位なのも理解できますね…。 ( ̄▽ ̄;) このアートタワーのある水戸芸術館は敷地内にある広場でフリーマーケットが開催される時があり、手作りだったり中古品だったりの目玉商品を見つける事もありますので、なかなか楽しいですよ。 (o^∀^o)

  • 4/5 278CC 6 years ago on Google
    (Translated by Google) I was worried about it in the spread of mathematics textbooks. Made of a combination of triangles, you can go inside and go up. There is no big impression when you go inside, but it is important to have such a wonderful tower in Mito and put it inside. (Original) 昔数学の教科書の見開きに載っていて気になってました。三角形の組み合わせで出来ており、中に入り上まで行けます。 中に入っても特に大きな感動はありませんが、こんなステキなタワーが水戸にあって、中に入れる、これが大事です??‍♂️?

  • 4/5 Taka 5 years ago on Google
    (Translated by Google) It is a mysterious tower in Mito. [Visit May 2018] (Original) 水戸にある謎のタワーです。 【2018年5月 訪問】

  • 4/5 おっさん元帥 2 years ago on Google
    (Translated by Google) Power Aaaa ...! !! Tawaaaaaaa ...! !! It's metallic and artistic ... it's cool ... it's art! !! (Original) パワアァアァア…!! タワアァアアアァア…!! メタリックで芸術的ざます…かっこええぇぇざます…アートなんやっ!!

  • 3/5 とぴーく 4 years ago on Google
    (Translated by Google) This is a reflection of an earthquake in Ibaraki. I went at night. It is lighted up and it is very beautiful when you take a picture. However, it is a mysterious tower that looks very creepy for some reason. I could go up, but the view was not so good because I looked out of the small windows lined up. (Original) 茨城で地震があると映るアレです。 夜にいきました。ライトアップされていて写真撮るととてもキレイです。が、肉眼で見ると何故かとても不気味に見える不思議なタワーです。 上まであがれますが、ポツポツ並んでる小さい窓から外を覗くタイプで展望はあまり良くありませんでした。

  • 5/5 Yoshi-aki S. 4 years ago on Google
    (Translated by Google) This is a tower attached to the Art Tower Mito. A straight and mechanical titanium exterior and a spiral organic image of DNA on the ridgeline provide an exquisite balance. You can also go inside (pay), and when you go to the elevator observation room, the round and small windows open up and down, and it's quite an interesting shape. Personally, the construction of the titanium panel can be seen from the inside and is interesting (for example, a pillar has a hole in it, or an oblique exterior panel is pulled in with a screw and fixed). When the state of Mito is reflected in the NHK earthquake bulletin, it may be famous because it is a tower that can be seen on the TV (in the distance). (Original) 水戸芸術館に併設のタワーでこれも作品の一つのような感じ。直線的で機械的なチタン製の外装と、稜線のDNAのらせん形の有機的なイメージが、なんとも絶妙なバランス。中に入ることもでき(有料)、エレベーター展望室に行くと丸くて小さい窓が上に下にいくつも開いているというなかなか面白い形をしていて、子供達は秘密基地みたいで楽しそう。 個人的にはチタンパネルの施工の様子が、内側からだとよく見えて面白い(柱に下穴が空いてたり、斜めの外装パネルをネジで引き込んで固定、など)。NHKの地震速報とかで水戸の様子が映ると、かならずテレビに(遠景で)見えるタワーなので有名になったかも。

  • 5/5 鈴木亙 5 years ago on Google
    (Translated by Google) The landscape from about 80 m is pretty good. It is a pity that the window is small, but it is structurally useless. (Original) 約80mからの風景なかなか良い。窓が小さいのは残念だけど構造上仕方ないかと。

  • 4/5 Camry 2. 5 years ago on Google
    (Translated by Google) I knew somehow on the NHK earthquake relay. I visited Mito for the first time and visited thinking with this eye anyway. Despite the bad condition of rainy evening, I was surprised that no one else was there. I got up to the observation room, but there were no other peeking down from the place like a round window of a second cabin, and this was also surprised. I think that it is good to praise that unique shape of the shape and making it seriously make it four stars. (Original) NHKの地震の中継で何となく知っていました。初めて水戸を訪れて、とにかくこの目で見てみようと思って訪れました。雨降りの夕方という悪条件とはいえ、他に人が誰もいなくて驚きました。展望室まで上がりましたが、二等船室の丸窓のようなところから腰をかがめて覗く他はなく、これもまた驚きました。形のユニークさとこれを本気で作ったということは賞賛しても良いのではないかと思い星4つにさせていただきます。

  • 4/5 㒺䖝 6 years ago on Google
    (Translated by Google) Gyoza Monogatari, Izumimachi 2-chome 3-5-2F (Original) 餃子物語,泉町2丁目3-5-2F

  • 5/5 きむら 6 years ago on Google
    (Translated by Google) City symbol (Original) 市のシンボル

  • 4/5 ジェイソン(tarky) 1 year ago on Google
    1989年に建てられて螺旋形のタワーで目を見張るデザインがイケてます。👍 エレベーターで(有料)高さ86mまで登ることができます。が、ちょっぴり怖いです。((( ;゚Д゚)))

  • 5/5 7nayaa7 4 years ago on Google
    (Translated by Google) The wind was blowing and I was told that when I climbed at the entrance, it was 100m high, and when I entered the observatory and looked down on the city from the small window, it surely shook slowly. If you want to climb anyway, we recommend when there is no wind. (Original) 風が、吹いており入り口で、登ると揺れていますよと教えられ、100mの高さが有り、展望台に入り小窓から、街を見下ろすと、確かにゆっくり揺れてましたね。 どうせ登るなら、風がない時をお勧めします。


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