People can visit the flood protection facility in Kasukabe, which safeguards Tokyo and has shafts large enough to fit the ...

When nearby rivers flood, the overflow courses through 6.3 km of massive underground ... station in Tokyo, Japan, July 16, 2024. REUTERS/Issei Kato The control switches of a tunnel boring machine ...

After visitors descend stairs winding 50 meters below ground, they emerge to an otherworldly sight -- a cavernous, dimly lit ...

Japan’s government has uploaded a free Minecraft map, which features the world’s largest underground flooding diversion facility.

Its dramatic pressure-adjusting water tank, known as the "underground shrine," is also popular with both domestic and international visitors. A one-of-a-kind flood ... carried by tunnel to the ...

The underground tunnel – 4.5km long and with a 12.5m inner ... that the Kanda River/Ring Road No. 7 reservoir has uses beyond flood prevention. In the drier months of December to May, about ...

likely unaware that they’re plodding through Japan’s oldest-surviving underground shopping street, established in 1955. The hordes of tourists aboveground may be oblivious to it, but this ...

According to Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, Japan is “on the verge of not ... and conveyor belts to transport goods through extensive underground tunnel networks. The ULS project was ...

As the flood of overseas tourists shows no sign of slowing, complaints about overcrowding and poor behavior by visitors are prompting some in Japan to look at ways of controlling the flow without ...