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December 01, 2008
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This is real and not Photoshop. I saw it myself last year while on a train in Osaka. I didn't know it was an expressway though. From the angle on the train I couldn't see cars and thought perhaps it was some kind of train station. (I would not have guessed an expressway.)
Posted by: vagrant | December 01, 2008 at 01:41 PM
Osakan city planning in a nutshell. More pics here http://anenglishmaninosaka.blogspot.com/2008/11/drive-thru-office.html
Posted by: stuz | December 01, 2008 at 02:47 PM
You should file this under "only in japan"
That's pretty awesome.
Posted by: Heather | December 03, 2008 at 12:34 PM
There's a place in New York where the highway goes directly underneath some apartment buildings as well.
http://www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com/bigmap/manhattan/uppermanhattan/washingtonheights/bridgeapts/index.htm
Doesn't look nearly as cool though.
Posted by: Pallavicini | December 10, 2008 at 12:05 PM
The building is the Gate Tower Building and is located in the Fukushima district of Osaka, and the road passing through it is the Ikeda Route of the Hanshin Expressway. The Expressway passes through the 5th through 7th floors and is listed as the tenant of these floors on the information map at the entrance to the building.
Posted by: Phan Thanh | November 09, 2011 at 07:55 PM