The invention provides a rest platform of a crossing tower and the crossing tower. The rest platform of the crossing tower comprises a bottom wall and protective fence components connected with the circumferential direction of the bottom wall, wherein the bottom wall and the protective fence components together form rest space; an entrance/exit communicated with the rest space is arranged on the protective fence components. The bottom wall and the protective fence components can provide shield for maintenance workers having a rest in the rest space, and prevent the maintenance workers from falling off from the tower, so that the safety of the maintenance workers having a rest is improved.