🗼Tokyo Tower Emoji
Generally, 🗼 just means “Tokyo Tower. ” It’s often used as a visual reference to the city.
The 🗼 emoji represents the Tokyo Tower, a really tall tower in Japan.
- Unicode
- U+1F5FC
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :tokyo_tower:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🗼 Tokyo Tower emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
Tokyo Tower emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+1F5FC — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your tokyo tower looks like to the person on the other side.
iPhone, iPad, macOS
Android, Gmail, Chrome
X, Discord, Twemoji apps
Facebook, Messenger
Open-source, design systems
Galaxy, One UI
Windows, Teams, Fluent
WhatsApp on Android
Slack, Discord themes
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
Tokyo Tower emoji copy and paste
Tap any value to copy it. The emoji itself works everywhere, the escapes are for your code, and the shortcode Slack and Discord expect is :tokyo_tower:.
In your code
Escapes for the languages people actually paste this into. Every one of them produces the same character, and that character is U+1F5FC.
How to type the 🗼 Tokyo Tower emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
Tokyo Tower emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the tokyo tower as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Tokyo Tower emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around tokyo tower for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that with 🗼, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
What 🗼 means from a girl or a guy
Who sent the tokyo tower and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
What 🗼 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
The character is the same everywhere, but the artwork and the reading of it change from app to app.
Where the 🗼 Tokyo Tower emoji came from
This one is older than Unicode emoji: Japanese carriers were drawing it on their handsets years before the standard existed, which it finally joined in 2010.
Same character every time — U+1F5FC never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Long before Unicode had emoji, Japanese carriers shipped their own picture sets.
🗼 existed there as
KDDI au E4C0, SoftBank E509.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Tokyo Tower was approved as U+1F5FC and shipped in Emoji 0.6 (2010). Emoji 0.6 is the original 2010 batch that came over from the Japanese sets.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 🗼 is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.