Uniquely Japanese Urban Landscape

[Tenorikuma]

I was exploring my city with Google Maps, looking for modelling ideas, when I discovered the craziest thing: one river traversing a bridge in order to cross a second river. There's nothing Japanese civil engineers won't try.

 

http://maps.google.co.jp/?ie=UTF8&ll=35.223904,136.939782&spn=0.001567,0.00273&t=h&z=19&lci=com.panoramio.all

[scott]

Ouch....looks like both of those rivers have been pretty much entirely channelized. From above, they look more like canals than rivers.

 

Where is this again?

[SubwayHypes]

japanese cities, especially Tokyo, have those canals criss crossing the entire city.  i wouldnt ever set my foot in that water LOL, though surprisingly carp and catfish do live in the dirtty water.

[Tenorikuma]

 

Ouch....looks like both of those rivers have been pretty much entirely channelized. From above, they look more like canals than rivers.

 

Where is this again?

 

The railway line nearby looks like the Meitetsu Komaki line, so I suspect somewhere north of nagoya ?

 

Yep, the northern edge of Nagoya.

[disturbman]

I was exploring my city with Google Maps, looking for modelling ideas, when I discovered the craziest thing: one river traversing a bridge in order to cross a second river. There's nothing Japanese civil engineers won't try.

 

Not so crazy or Japanese, I know places in France where this kind of things happens. Sorry.

 

As a matter of fact you can think that Romans did that too with their aqueducs.