Poor planning? Engineering gone wrong? Unconventional street decor? Whatever the explanation, this quiet residential street in Tokyo's Setagaya ward boasts perhaps the highest manhole density in town, with 85 of them scattered along a 200-meter stretch of pavement. Fans of the curious street call it "Manhole Ginza."
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Related: Japanese manhole covers
dogtato
Hey, it's the loophole nexus!
[]Legoboy Chocolatecheek
This is where I want to live.
[]Leana
Shouldn't someone have noticed that they were making a new manhole five feet away from another one?
[]Jason
Better hope nobody flushes an M80 on that street!
[]david
I like the design of the manholes! Reminiscent of flowers.
[]Luis Larrea
And here I thought North and Cicero in Chicago had a lot of manholes.
[]JasonW
WELCOME TO WARP ZONE!
[]deco
Maybe they're just stickers ;) Saw that in an advert for some tire brand when they put a giant sticker on some street with some terrible holes in the middle of the road. Impressively realistic. Now, if it's not a sticker, then whoever was in charge with the city supervision of that project changed every 2 years and the follower hated the predecessor. Really bad.
[]tk
Pretty manhole covers.
Beautifully bizarre street photos...
[]hydevilist
although they're basically useless, you gotta hand it to them the designs are just lovely ^^
[]Gov't Employee
As a city employee manholes are required at every change in direction in a public sewer line. Where better to have a nexus of such than in an alley. Kudos on the artistic flair.
[]DJ
hydevilist...USELESS? You have some homework to do...
[]Badjuk
Nie wiem czy te studzienki maja jakies zastosowanie, ale wspaniale to wyglada. Z reszta - przynajmniej nie utrudniaja jazdy po tej ulicy, a nie jak to ma miejsce w naszym kraju ;)
[]edc
mario just-a came in his a-pants-a!
[]Karla
I've wondered whether anyone has done a collection of photos of different manhole covers. Prague also has nice ones. (Not in such profusion though.)
[]laine
lots of japan is very poor. in okinawa they build roads so bad and so quickly on purpose, so they will have to come back within the year to keep working. weirdest thing is its totally acceptable. i'm betting something similar happened here, like its just a way to keep working and make money.
[]saitokthx
where's the colored ones?
[]Japanese words
That would be great for a movie. Just imagine them all shooting up in the air one after another.
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