Comments on: Tokyo’s vast underground temple-drains: the G-Cans

By: jack

jack — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 04:20:47 +0000

I read an article that stated Tropical Storm Lee (2011) dumped 45 trillion gallons of rain over Eastern US. (170 cubic kilometers). If something like that, or a series of storms stalled over Tokyo long enough, G-cans or not, Tokyo would be a waterworld. Japan’s largest lake, Lake Biwa, only holds 27.5 km3, 1/6th of a major storm, so yeah, its not a waste of money, its necessary. Too bad other cities do not have the equivalent…yet…

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[...] water tank, The Temple. You’ll recognise it from Mirror’s Edge as you flick through this real life gallery, which asks whether this $2billion project is a big white elephant or the future saviour of almost [...]

By: bb

bb — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 22:02:54 +0000

This location definitely inspired a location in a Japanese game recently, Fragile Dreams. very very impressive.

By: ironman

ironman — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 02:22:02 +0000

As suggested, development conceived also for bomb shelter. Can be harnessed to use river water for usage instead of recycling used water from homes/sewage system which is much more expensive.

By: ironman

ironman — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 02:18:06 +0000

As suggested, development conceived also for bomb shelter. Can be harnessed to use river water for usage instead of recycling used water from homes/sewage system which is much more expensive and healthy.

By: logithinker

logithinker — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 19:28:47 +0000

Well, don’t blame MMLee. He may not know about this. But after knowing will he deliberate with his smart people, whether he should embark on tnis massive project.

By: Shihab.I

Shihab.I — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 02:21:46 +0000

woow its very wonderful building

By: Can. Mike

Can. Mike — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 02:10:39 +0000

A tour eh? Too bad we couldn’t go there ourselves and just walk around. Knowing Japanese tours, they’d probably be pretty restrictive in where you could go and what you could do.
Very interesting though, another great waste of taxpayer’s yen!

By: Adrian

Adrian — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 01:39:23 +0000

Definitely a place I would go to while here or somewhere to take your mates if they are looking for something not Tokyo .
Kinda reminds me of the movie ‘Total Recall’ – the end scene when Arnie enters the mines and discovers some huge machine.

It was also featured on tv sometime in February the people going round were those who kept on saying ‘dekai’ and ‘sugoi’ they totally wet themselves.

By: Sum0

Sum0 — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 00:13:48 +0000

I found out about G-Cans a few months ago and was thoroughly blown away. That colossal size reminds me of a part of the Blade Runner game, but to know that this thing is real is absolutely incredible. I’m determined to visit some day…