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Making Room In Tokyo

Friday, 15th December 2006 by Alex

With a population of around 35 million people, Tokyo is officially the world’s most populous metropolitan area. As there’s so little space to go around, the people of Tokyo have to be a bit inventive with where they put things…

For example, here’s an Adidas branded football stadium that’s been assembled on top of a building. It was featured in the Fast and the Furious 3 (apparently… has anyone actually seen that movie?)

Meanwhile (reminding me a lot of New York’s 77 Water Street Biplane), an ‘Electronics school’ has parked a small plane on their roof. Google Earth Forum member DJJackD visited the plane (which is held down with ropes - presumably to stop someone flying off in it ;-)), but didn’t manage to find out its origin… Can anyone out there fill in the blanks?

Thanks to Max and DJJackD & Lrae of the GEC.

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3 Responses to 'Making Room In Tokyo'

  1. 1. ub says: December 15th, 2006 at 6:33 pm

    the adidas field is also the location for jpop star Tommy february6’s “Kiss One More Time” video. You can watch it here:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUcKhWYQZw0

  2. 2. Gesh says: December 15th, 2006 at 8:37 pm

    Thats the Shibuya train station.
    That roof has been a bunch of diffenrent things.
    The previous satelite images showed a racetrack for remote controlled cars.
    http://www.bgimages.org/temp/shibuya01.jpg
    And here is a view from the top of one of the adjascent buildings.
    http://www.bgimages.org/temp/shibuya02.jpg

  3. 3. tony says: February 29th, 2008 at 8:04 am

    Shibuya crossing was featured in Fast & Furious 3. I don’t remember seeing the soccer field though.

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