The Wind Tower in Japan

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This structure is located in Tokyo Bay, near Tokyo's Haneda Airport. His name is & ndash; Kaze no to, which in Japanese is the Tower of the Wind. An unusual form of the structure for the nearsighted may seem like a normal sailboat.

At a depth of 40 meters below the bottom, the Tokyo Bay Aqualine tunnel is 9.6 kilometers long. It leads this tunnel from Yokohama to Chibu. And the Tower of Wind itself is a ventilation shaft. One of the oval structures draws fresh air, and the other & ndash; it releases. Also, there are evacuation exits here. On the round platform of the island, in the event of an emergency, all evacuated will be located. The construction of the entire tunnel lasted 31 years and costed $ 11.2 billion. However, the profitability of the project is obvious. After all, this allowed saving about 100 km of the way necessary for movement along the coast.

Tower of the Wind in Japan