Japan’s $40BN Airport is Sinking
What will happen to Kansai International Airport?
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Video narrated and hosted by Fred Mills. Additional footage and images courtesy of Video Street View Japan, Kansai Airports Group, Hsin Lin, Airport Authority Hong Kong, Incheon Airport, Google Earth, Japan Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Al Jazeera, Microsoft Flight Simulator, Cat Walk, ANKOU1192, NIKKATSU, TOEI Company, SPARK, EURONEWS, CNA, EXPO 2025
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00:00 Intro
00:50 Kansai International
01:33 Osaka
02:12 Radical solution
02:27 Building on water
03:56 Kansai construction
05:17 InEight
06:12 That sinking feeling
06:56 Settlement
07:40 Pioneering design
08:57 Success?
09:28 Typhoon Jebi
10:05 Remedial works
10:38 What next?
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43 Comments
In another video 3 years ago, it was 20 billion dollar airport lol
I remember when the bibistar complex was designed in the sizemount cluster it was a colossal 50 trillion tons of debris poured into just a 6 feet structure that went down 4million miles. Still the most impressive site today after all these years.
11:11 According to that graph airport will be under 4 meters height in a couple of years. And you said at the beginning it was bare minimum height to keep ocean waves out, right ?
Then doesn't this mean this airport is in serious trouble ???
5:10 This is Japan, knowing them it's easy to see how they managed to balance everything.
The Japanese had to top the mistake of building a nuclear plant on a fault line by building an airport over the sea at a time of rising sea levels. I blame faulty Sudoku logic as the problem. And having too much Sake and radioactive Sushi 🙂
I like how daddy described horses.
What is it thinking about?
The airport was just built as a final mission in Tekken dude.
(in a heavy accent) it's sinking? what is it sinking about?
what is it sinking about tho??
I personally call BS on them never losing any luggage. I flew into KIX from the US in April 2023 and lo and behold, upon landing, my suitcase was nowhere to be found. I had to spend half of my time in Japan wearing random tourist t-shirts from Donki until my luggage finally arrived at my hotel several days later. Granted it feels like Charlotte (where I had a very short layover) was probably the main ones responsible, but if your end destination is KIX and your luggage isn't there when you arrive, do they not count that in the statistic?
10,000 workers working only 100 hours each is 1,000,000 work hours. You're welcome.
DADDY NEEDS TO GET A REAL FREAKING JOB INSTEAD OF YAKING ON YOUTUBE AND COLLECTING UNEMPLOYMENT CHECKS.
I'm just here because the cover image of this video reminded me of one of my favorite albums Panopticon.
9:57 bro thought he was slick with trying to sneak in fortnight
Took 2 yrs to just pile up sand/rocks. No way to fix this.
Holocene and Pleistocene are time periods, not geological layers.
So the solution was to make the island into a polder? The Dutch would be proud.
I've flown into that airport so many times.
I remember following a series of articles in the Midnight Engineering magazine in the early 90's. The article was titled "The mud-pump from hell" and described how the author developed a controller for a huge pump system that would pump mud from the ocean floor in Osaka bay. The project was a nightmare with badly communicated requirements and systems that worked badly, or not at all. I sometimes wonder how engineers are actually able to successfully complete projects like this.
Fast forward 30 years, and very few of these engineers are still around and the rest just don't talk about it. Doctors may bury their mistakes, but engineers always take it a little further and cover it up with 180 million cubic meters of earth…
This is a wonderful piece of engineering. And it will continue to be used for many, many decades.
Funny how people used to underestimate the subsidence of soils. We have a bridge across the IJssel river at Deventer that was completed in 1972. The bridge was designed with some pylons in the waterway. Scientists were called in to estimate the subsidence for each pylon, using (for the time) advanced numerical simulations. With one pylon, the subsidence was a LOT more than the engineers expected, so they instead assumed a smaller value, assuming a computer error had been made.
There is now a permanent dip in the bridge at that exactly spot.
Shoutout to your kids
They have never heard of climate change.
So we definitely Kensai this is a marvel of engineering
One of the earliest documentaries I ever watched was this airport 🤗❤️
Japanese is always great❤❤❤🇱🇰
Bodies of water naturally claim back what it is naturally theirs. Same things happening to most, if not nearly all reclaimed projects globally. It's just a matter of time.
Call the Dutch and call it a day
Sooo ??? They never ever heared of Dykes. Come on people, such a country can pay that for sure. Build a dyke from 20 meters high 😊
Soo served 1 billion people, but cost $40B. So each passenger has cost $40? That’s enourmous
40 years later you know better engineering, no?
Is the platform sinking or is the sea level rising?
Been doing this since it was built!
Actually, Lelystad Airport has been sitting on reclaimed land in The Netherlands since 1973.
Is see the problem, it's not build by the Dutch.
Proof you can't narrate unless you're British……….
How can they be sure it isn’t sea level rising?
it's not "BN", it's just "B". Similarly you don't say "mi"… it's just "m" (or "mil")
I went to the Osaka Kansai airport in 2008 and it was so big inside too! Also it was a weird time i guess cuz there was barely anyone there at the time lol
Dude, you can't get basic facts right. The Soviet Union was the second biggest economy then, not japan
oh man… memories. been there in 2007. amazing.
Hi Fred Mills' kids
Fred Mills is literally a HOT DADDY