Managing water has long been a necessity for Japan ... flood-regulating mechanism closer to central Tokyo is the Kanda River Ring Road No. 7 Underground Regulating Reservoir. The 4.5km-long tunnel ...

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 ...

In the hills above Kobe, Japan’s fifth largest city (pop. 938,200), is the twelve-year-old, $3,471,600 gigantic Kita-machi Reservoir. On the southern part of the main Japanese Island of Honchu ...

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 ...

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 ...

in Japan’s Saitama prefecture. The facility, one of the world’s largest underground stormwater discharge channels, has come to be described as an “underground shrine” by many. The temple ...