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Impressive Storm Sewer System / Saitama, Japan

By David Basulto — Filed under: Infrastructure , ,
 

To avoid floodings on typhoon season, the city of Saitama in Japan features an impressive storm sewer system. Its construction started in 1992, and its composed by giant concrete silos (65m tall, 32m wide) connected by 6.4km of underground tunnels 50m below the surface. It also has a giant tank: 25.4m tall, 177m long and 78 wide, with 59 concrete columns.

This impressive structure is opened for tourists. More pictures  and videos below. Be sure to check out the truck being lifted through the sewer!.

Official website here. Seen at Plataforma Urbana.

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69 comments »

R.O. says:

reminds me of the dwarf-city “khazad-dûm”

 
# July 7, 2008 at 03:15
IzOcKa says:

igualitos a los de santiago para evitar las inundaciones de las calles

 
# July 7, 2008 at 08:57
Fubiz says:

Simply beautiful!

 
# July 7, 2008 at 09:08
Dave says:

Great stuff. Had this on RedRuin a few years back:
http://www.redruin.com/2005/12/07/tokyo-underground/

Would be nice to take a tour sometime.

 
# July 7, 2008 at 23:41
Anonymous says:

photoshopped

 
# July 9, 2008 at 05:47
andrew says:

Anyone else reminded of the silent hill movie?

 
# July 9, 2008 at 10:35
JAB_au says:

Wow that’s cool

 
# July 10, 2008 at 10:18

Amazing!

 
# July 10, 2008 at 10:50
SolPatots says:

A pity this place can’t be used as an event hall or something… can oyu imagine? That’d be great

 
# July 11, 2008 at 03:27
eric says:

reminds me of lord of the rings to me

 
# July 11, 2008 at 05:22
tom says:

reminds me of evangelion

 
# July 17, 2008 at 04:20
zivtiņš says:

reāli kruta, varētu izcelt lielo kāpīti :shura:

 
# July 29, 2008 at 06:35

wao,That’s amazing

 
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# October 14, 2008 at 06:17
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# October 26, 2008 at 13:01
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# October 27, 2008 at 09:34
Android says:

Very cool…

 
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# November 22, 2008 at 10:22

Wow! That’s cool!

My hometown of Kristianstad, Skåne (Europe) could use something similiar, as it is situated two-three metres below sea level. Though, there is no foundation below the city to build in. Just pure mud. It’s a wonder they managed to build the city once upon a time. At that time they built the city pretty much on two giant rafts, floating in the middle of a swamp, centuries ago. Damn stupid location.

 
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