[throwaway49872]

> It isn't because the Tokyo Tower is more important than the Eiffel Tower

That's debatable.

[samatman]

It is not, in fact, debatable, that this is not the reason why one is an emoji and the other is not.

[RyJones]

I was stung when the exhibit in the Tokyo Tower of other famous towers of the world didn’t have the Space Needle, but had other, shorter buildings for scale.