大阪の「通天閣」が70歳に、紫色に光る

Welcome to Japanese Daily News. I'm Maya. Today is October twenty-ninth. A famous tower in Osaka is celebrating its seventieth birthday. Let's listen.

Now let's break it down.

Tsutenkaku in Osaka turned seventy years old on October twenty-eighth.

It means seventy years old.

Tsutenkaku is a tower one hundred and eight meters tall, in a town called Shinsekai in Osaka.

It means a town.

The current Tsutenkaku was completed on October twenty-eighth, nineteen fifty-six.

The first Tsutenkaku was built in nineteen twelve, but it was lost in a fire in nineteen forty-three.

It means the first.

It means a fire, like a building on fire.

To celebrate turning seventy, Tsutenkaku has been shining purple since the twenty-eighth.

It means a celebration.

In Japan, the color for celebrating a seventieth birthday is purple.

It means purple.

The purple lights can be seen until November twelfth, until eleven at night.

The usual price to enter the observation deck is fifteen hundred yen.

It means an observation deck.

For the three days until the thirtieth, people with a train commuter pass can enter free, up to one thousand people each day.

It means a commuter pass for trains.

It means free of charge.

Also, the first one hundred thousand people who come to the observation deck will get a commemorative present.

Now listen to the full story again.

Quiz time. Listen and answer.

One hundred and eight meters.

In nineteen fifty-six.

Purple, the color for celebrating age seventy.

That's all for this morning. Thanks for listening. See you next time.