It offers excellent views of the city, as you might expect. It cost 2 euro with my student ID card (3 euro otherwise). After I bought my ticket, my backpack was searched, and then I was directed toward the elevators. Fortunately there was an elevator operator for one of the two there, and he loaded it up and took us all up. We stopped first on I think the 51st story and some people got off to go to the restaurant. Then we went up one more level and the rest of us got out to go up to the viewing platform. There were still some stairs to climb, but not too many.

Once I was on the actual viewing platform, I took some pictures and eventually leaned on one of the walls. I’m not too fond of heights, and had all these morbid thoughts in my height. I was happy to find that if I did happen to fall, it would only be one or two stories, rather than the whole height of the building, as the viewing platform was not the width of the whole structure. I figured this was to prevent high-profile suicides. Good for them.

Since it was my first night in Frankfurt, I didn’t recognize much yet. I did easily find the Hauptbahnhof, easy to spot with all its train tracks clumped together and then splitting off in all directions. And of course the river was also easy to see, and I watched boats coming and going. I finally spotted the Frankfurter Dom, and knew that Römerberg was right in front of it. So it was kind of fun to spot these things, which I knew I’d be seeing up close and personal in the next few days. But I think saving the tower for later would have been nice, too, since I would have recognized many more landmarks, and could have probably found many of them.

The viewing platform is open late, which means you can save it for the end of the day. It opens at 10am and closes at 9pm every day.