{"id":242907,"date":"2010-01-28T15:10:21","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T20:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"332 at http:\/\/atlasobscura.com"},"modified":"2010-01-28T15:10:21","modified_gmt":"2010-01-28T20:10:21","slug":"g-cans-the-worlds-largest-drain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/242907","title":{"rendered":"G-Cans: the World&#8217;s Largest Drain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/atlasobscura.com\/globe\/asia\/japan\/saitama-ken\/saitama\">Saitama<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/atlasobscura.com\/globe\/asia\/japan\">Japan<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/atlasobscura.com\/categories\/architectural-oddities\/subterranean-sites\">Subterranean Sites<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The G-Cans project (Shutoken Gaikaku Housui Ro, or the Metropolitan Area Outer Underground Discharge Channel) is a massive underground waterway and water storage area built by the Japanese government to protect Tokyo from flooding during the monsoon seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Begun in 1992, the two-billion-dollar project will be finished in 2009. The tunnels run over 100 km, but perhaps the most impressive features of the drainage system are the 213-foot-tall silos and the 83-foot-tall, 580-foot-long pillared main tank known as the &#8220;Underground Temple,&#8221; which was built to collect run-off from the city&#8217;s waterways. The humongous drainage system can pump over 200 tons of water a second.<\/p>\n<p>A free tour is offered in Japanese only. It is requested that you bring along a translator&#8230; for &#8220;safety reasons.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.atlasobscura.com\/files\/imagecache\/place_main\/place_images\/00.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"  width=\"280\" height=\"179\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saitama, Japan | Subterranean Sites The G-Cans project (Shutoken Gaikaku Housui Ro, or the Metropolitan Area Outer Underground Discharge Channel) is a massive underground waterway and water storage area built by the Japanese government to protect Tokyo from flooding during the monsoon seasons. Begun in 1992, the two-billion-dollar project will be finished in 2009. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/217"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}