Name: Highway through a Building Story ★ ONLY in JAPAN
Uploaded: 2020-03-24T17:02:43.000Z
Duration: 5 min 48 s
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Adverbs of degree

Quite often when you see something unbelievable on the internet

you don’t know whether or not it is fake or real

Behind me is Osaka’s Gate Tower Building

That’s right! Going through that building

Osaka is Japan’s second largest metropolitan area

located in the heart of the Kansai region.

one of the world’s most peculiar buildings.

but from building level, the GATE TOWER BUILDING is just ridiculous

There’s a story behind this building but

I wanted to go inside the TKP Gate Tower Building

and find out what exactly’s on those middle floors.

I got permission from the building owner to give you a look around.

First I had to pin down which floors the highway was located

I quickly found out those floors simple don’t exist.

The elevator simply doesn’t stop on the highway level.

In the lobby, you can see it listed though.

Floors 5 6 and 7 are the Hanshin Expressway

Yup! You can watch the cars go straight though the building.

From an adjacent building, you can see that the expressway

curves below my postion on the 8th floor.

surrounded by a  tunnel to prevent noise and vibrations

On the 5th to 7th floors is a stairwell, elevator and some machinery

By the way, the highway is the legal tenant of floors 5 through 7

About 1500 meters away is Osaka’s famous UMEDA SKY BUILDING

From there, you can get an amazing view of the city

You’re probably wondering why the Hanshin Expressway

It’s basically a land rights dispute with a sort of happy ending

The property was owned by a business since the early Meiji era

but when the business declined, so did the buildings

The area was approved to be redeveloped in 1983

but the property holder refused to give up the land,

even though new building permits had been refused

Now it’s part of Osaka’s fast growing skyline.

Seen it, been in it, and now it’s time to drive through it

one stop away from the Gate Tower Building and Umeda Exit

He’s the president of a delivery service that gets things

speedily to people whereever they are in Japan

Felt like we were driving inside a video game to complete a mission

Was there anything special about driving through a building like this?

When you do it in a LOTUS 7, you bet there is!

In reality, it’s just a tunnel for drivers to pass though,

but the visual of it all is just super cool

and now I can check it off my list of things to do ONLY in JAPAN

You can get good views of the building on the OSAKA KANJOU SEN

or Circular / Loop Line between Osaka and Fukushima Station

When you think about it, the shortest route from A to B is a straight line,

never mind that this ones curves a little

I’m just saying more highways should go through more buildings because –

the crazy building with a highway going through it and –

Next time I meet up with ONLY in JAPAN regular Kevin Riley

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