The hotel one man dug out of solid rock #2 interior

Takahashi Minekichi was a rural Japanese strawberry farmer with a vision. For 21 years he carved the beginnings of a grand hotel into the solid rock wall of a cliff face on his land, digging out the contours only he…

Touring bones in the Paris Catacombs

Underneath Paris lie hundreds of miles of catacombs, dug over hundreds of years as quarries, tunnels, sewers and interlinked basements. Now for the most part they lie fallow, though never completely blocked-off for fear of sealing some intrepid explorers inside….

Tokyo’s vast underground temple-drains: the G-Cans
April 8, 2009 · Catacombs / Caves, Haikyo, Tokyo-to · 13 Comments 

The G-Cans Underground Temple in Saitama is probably the most massive underground flood management system in the world- comprised of 100s of kilometers of tunnels up to 50 meters underground connecting 5 vast silos and one immense water tank: The…

Ancient Ruins- 100 cliff-tombs of the Jomon period
March 27, 2009 · Catacombs / Caves, Haikyo, Saitama · 7 Comments 

The Hyaku Ana Cliff Tombs in Saitama are ancient, easily some of the oldest ruins in all of Japan, dating back 1300 years to a time of almost pre-history- such that very little is known about them at all. They…

The hotel one man dug out of solid rock #1 exterior

The Gan Kutsu Cliff Face Hotel in Saitama is the relic of a dream, one man’s vision to carve out a massive hotel in the sheer rock face, working alone with only a chisel for 21 years until the day…

Null-space Tunnels under Yokosuka Navy Base

Deep within the solid rock of the Negishi Plateau in Yokohama, spreading beneath the old race-course Grandstand and Yokosuka Naval Base, lies a twisting warren of hidden World War 2-era caverns. Once filled with ancient munitions, bustling troops, and rooms…

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