Escalators that sheer . Escalators that glow . Quadruple - decker , gold - plate , Tron - themed moving stairway . The run staircase may have been an American invention , but it ’s the Japanese who have really perfect them .
Tokyo Escalator , a blog pay to the city ’s many variation on a subject , show us some of the most gripping . The encyclopedic site is the work of one Miha Tamura , a local blogger who snap escalators around the city as she finds them . She ’s an adequate - opportunity elevator photographer , capturing the boring along with the unusual , and says she weigh her images “ information ” rather than art . But , as she toldPing Magazine , she does have a favorite :
The most amazing is the spiral escalator made by Mitsubishi Electric . Curving escalators were conceived from ahead of time on when escalators were invent , but they are very difficult and even today Mitsubishi Electric is the only one in the world who can make them . If I had n’t come across this spiral escalator in Yokohama I do n’t think I would have committed myself to escalators as much as I have .
To most of us , escalators are only remarkable when they feature in a hilariousYouTube video . But Tamura ’s piece of work is a reminder that at one time , they were nothing light of revolutionary — a part of technology that formulate the singular needs of the super - dense city .
The project has also been published as a book — check it outhere . [ All image courtesy of Miha Tamura;Ping Magazinevia theAtlantic Cities . ]
Mitsubishi ’s curving masterpiece .
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