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Metropolitan Area Outer Underground Discharge Channel

Saitama · Kasukabe · Historic Districts

Japanese name: 首都圏外郭放水路

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Metropolitan Area Outer Underground Discharge Channel
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WHAT TO DOMetropolitan Area Outer Underground Discharge Channel

A flood-control works whose surge tank is called the underground temple. Places once closed, such as the pump room, are now on the tour.

WHERESaitama

Kasukabe

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A flood-control works whose surge tank is called the underground temple. Places once closed, such as the pump room, are now on the tour.

About this place

A flood-control facility in Kasukabe, Saitama. Besides a visit to the "pressure-adjusting water tank," called the underground temple, it runs tours that include a visit to the No. 3 shaft as a disaster-prevention tour. Tours require advance reservation, with bookings of 1 to 19 people, and children below elementary school age cannot take part.

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