Secret underground warehouse in Tokyo (video)
In this video, a camera crew follows a city official to a trapdoor hidden in a Tokyo sidewalk, which opens to a narrow stairway leading to a giant underground warehouse stocked with emergency supplies. (Watch it.)
Located 20 meters (65 ft) underground, the 1,480 square meter (16,000 sq ft) space contains emergency supplies to be distributed to the public in the event of a major earthquake. Items include 5,000 blankets, 8,000 rugs, 4,000 candles, 300 cooking pots, 200 t-shirts, and emergency medical supplies. A conveyor belt system is installed to help transport the supplies up to street level.
The underground warehouse is connected to an unnamed station on the Oedo line, Tokyo’s deepest subway. Apparently, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government maintains more than one of these warehouses, but the locations are kept secret.
I should hope they have more than once, because 5000 blankets
won’t go very far in a city of 12 million people!
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So that’s why they built the Oedo Line so deep! Ten bucks says the warehouse is under Tocho-mae.
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So is Shun Akiba finally vindicated…?
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People would mob these secret warehouses after a quake if they knew where they were. The idea might be to deliver the supplies to official disaster relief sites, not the people on the congested street above. That would explain the secrecy.
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There must be another hidden door that’ll take you to the Geofront. Maybe there is an EVA hidden and the work on Tokyo 3 has begun, in accordance to the prophecy.
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Great idea and nice to see someone being so proactive the threat of natural disasters
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You never know when Godzilla will strike!
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What if the earthquakes cause a cave-in and all this stuff becomes inaccessible?
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What if it floods?
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At 1:03 and 1:04 you can see a face on the wall. It tripped me out.
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i foudn 6 of these entrances aroudn tokyo and they are all within a 2 mile square. one has living quarters.
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oh wow, that’s freaking awesome, I fantasized about making something like that at my neighbourhood, but couldn’t get the permits to install the locks in the floor.
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Why are they doing that hentai porn thing with it…..i guess japan is all about hentai…
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Great post. I always say that the Japanese Cities got some kind of mechanism for uncertainty reduction. This is one of them.
I really love this kind of cities.
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