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.
Rich
I should hope they have more than once, because 5000 blankets
[]won't go very far in a city of 12 million people!
Tim
So that's why they built the Oedo Line so deep! Ten bucks says the warehouse is under Tocho-mae.
[]Robert Seddon
So is Shun Akiba finally vindicated...?
[]MK
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.
[]sanjiyan
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.
[]Eric
ahahah ^^
[]Jonny
Great idea and nice to see someone being so proactive the threat of natural disasters
[]hellboy
You never know when Godzilla will strike!
[]gnimsh
What if the earthquakes cause a cave-in and all this stuff becomes inaccessible?
[]communist
What if it floods?
[]Raxo
At 1:03 and 1:04 you can see a face on the wall. It tripped me out.
[]joe
i foudn 6 of these entrances aroudn tokyo and they are all within a 2 mile square. one has living quarters.
[]replica man
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.
[]shdwsclan
Why are they doing that hentai porn thing with it.....i guess japan is all about hentai...
[]Danjuro
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.
[]powsurfer
There are a few underground storage centers in and around Tokyo, but the largest supplies and depot center is under the whole area that is ODAIBA.
[]It supposedly has enough supplies for over hundreds of thousands of people. It was shown on Modern Marvels once.
So if you get caught in an Earthquake in Tokyo, go to Odaiba, there's a better chance to get rations, I mean 5000 blankets???
Mizzumi
@powsurfer Really? What episode was it, do you remember?
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