The Japanese authorities has launched a Minecraft map of the world’s largest underground flood prevention facility. Not solely is it free to obtain, but it surely enables you to discover one of the Tokyo space’s lesser-known iconic areas from the consolation of your home.
The Metropolitan Area Outer Underground Discharge Channel, generally known as G-Cans for short, is a real-life catastrophe prevention facility. It is best-known for its “pressure adjustment water tank” — a big cavernous space with 59 large pillars. A very epic trying, boss battle-worthy location, it’s G-Can’s most iconic sight, and even has the nickname “underground temple” (chika shinden) in Japan. With baggage of ambiance, it additionally will get used as a location for music videos, Japanese TV dramas (like Kamen Rider) and flicks.
In dry seasons, it’s potential to tour G-Cans in actual life, however thanks to the Japanese Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT), now you can discover this atmospheric facility in Minecraft too. The ministry have launched a video on their official YouTube which briefly summarizes the aim of G-Cans and reveals what it seems like within the blocky world of Minecraft.
Minecraft’s free G-Cans map doesn’t simply embody the power although — there’s additionally an overground space that includes rivers, houses, and neighborhoods, giving the participant a sense of how G-Cans protects people and locations in actual life. You may go into the control room and take a look at draining flood water into the shafts to see how it really works for your self.
MLIT’s recreation of G-Cans in Minecraft is designed to educate people in regards to the facility and how it prevents disasters. Exploring it, even in Minecraft, additionally offers the participant a sense of how completely big G-Cans is. In actual life, G-Cans' concrete tunnels run for over 6km beneath Saitama Prefecture, half of the Greater Tokyo Area. Its 5 shafts seize water from flood-prone rivers during Japan’s wet season (June) and storm season (often round September), earlier than regularly releasing it into the a lot larger Edogawa River and Tokyo Bay. Completed in 2006 after over a decade of development, G-Cans has performed a big function in combating flooding within the space ever since.
MLIT’s G-Can’s Minecraft map might be downloaded without spending a dime from the official web site of the Edogawa River Office, which manages the power. At least Version 1.21.1 of Minecraft Bedrock Edition or Version 1.21.0 of Minecraft Education Edition are required.
Verity Townsend is a Japan-based freelance author who beforehand served as editor, contributor and translator for the game information website Automaton West. She has additionally written about Japanese tradition and flicks for numerous publications.