http://algebraoflife.blogspot.com/2007/07/japanese-sewers-photo-gallery-first.html
Cheers!
-Hunt
http://algebraoflife.blogspot.com/2007/07/japanese-sewers-photo-gallery-first.html
Cheers!
-Hunt
Here's the original site with the photos the guy used in his blog. It shows a bit more of the above-water-level structures which are still just amazing. It is indeed designed to divert wastewater from tsunamis and typhoons along with just about any other unneeded water source away from delicate architecture in metropolitan and suburban areas.
My personal fav would have to be the warehouse-sized impeller from the water pumps - http://www.g-cans.jp/intro/07photo/02.html (Katakana at the bottom of the picture says 'Ponpu Inperu' or 'Pump Impeller')
-Hunt
(Edited by Hunter at 12:33 am on July 23, 2007)