Making Room In Tokyo
Friday, 15th December 2006 by Alex Turnbull
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.
About the author
Alex has decided that his title will be Senior Vice President of Stuff.
the adidas field is also the location for jpop star Tommy february6’s “Kiss One More Time” video. You can watch it here:
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
Shibuya crossing was featured in Fast & Furious 3. I don’t remember seeing the soccer field though.