Impressive Storm Sewer System / Saitama, Japan
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Jul 2008
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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reminds me of the dwarf-city “khazad-dûm”
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igualitos a los de santiago para evitar las inundaciones de las calles
Simply beautiful!
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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.
photoshopped
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Anyone else reminded of the silent hill movie?
Wow that’s cool
Amazing!
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A pity this place can’t be used as an event hall or something… can oyu imagine? That’d be great
reminds me of lord of the rings to me
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reminds me of evangelion
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reāli kruta, varētu izcelt lielo kāpīti :shura:
wao,That’s amazing
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