What is Digg?Sponsored by newegg
Ready. Set. Shop view!
newegg.com - Newegg.com Black Friday Sale starting 11/25 3PM PST. No Lines, No Crowds, Click and Save.
76 Comments
- jbrevik, on 10/12/2007, -3/+29Good for you
- WaterDragon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+23" crushed white marble "sand" "
...courtesy of Blendtec. - dle5, on 10/12/2007, -2/+22And people wonder why some of us are Japanophiles. Awesome.
- msprout, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14I love how, in the shot above the thing, you can see the goddamn beach in the background.
Talk about a post-modern fart to the face. - mojo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12I found this on another site talking about the Dome:
"Entrance costs US$50, which seems especially expensive given that there is a free, natural beach only 300 metres away." - daremo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11I few more pictures here. http://www.newjapan.us/forums/viewtopic.php?t=383 Really cool looking place.
- illectronic, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12this is sweet. especially the clouds projected onto the ceiling screen. totally owns florida's adventure island and blizzard beach.
- jpop, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Artifical beach = year round beaches. Not something you get with the real thing there.
- teddyrux, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8I'd so yell "SHARK!" just to see how people react.
- TGMD, on 10/12/2007, -4/+12honestly.... WTF is wrong with the Japaneses...
Their an island nation I'm sure they don't need artificial beaches... - WaterDragon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8"where you can rent the latest in swimsuit fashions"
People RENT swimsuits? Ewwwwwwwww! - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Search up the West Edmonton Mall World Water Park in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. ITs not as nice but it is still huge and looks very similar.... and its smack dab in the middle of land-logged, oil-rich Alberta!!
- Daedalus81, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Its safe. The sky is always "blue". Its clean. You can go during the winter. And besides...what kind of crap lives off the coasts of Japan?
- jpop, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I think he's blaming Bush for the beach.
- Tobbz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7I wonder what it cost to make?
That retractable roof is simply amazing.. Engineering at its best. - olddirtycr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6"Above all else, the size is impressive. In fact, Ocean Dome is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the world’s largest indoor water park, measuring 300 meters in length, 100 meters in width. And the temperature is 30 degrees Celsius year-round.
There are quite a few differences between the Ocean Dome and the ocean, among them the heated indoor pool, the kids’ pool, the floating pool, and the three fast and thrilling water slides. Everyone feels like a child when playing in the water.
Within the dome, there are shops where you can rent the latest in swimsuit fashions or whet your appetite with drinks, fast food, light snacks, or full-scale restaurants that serve up the best in local Miyazaki cuisine. "
It was made in 1993 - Bullsnot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Wow, you are going to have to dig those artificial beaches awfully deep for that plan.
- Riffz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Good morning, and in case I don't see ya, good afternoon, good evening, and good night!
Cue the sun! - Daedalus81, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7I ber there are some really hot chicks there too!
- olddirtycr, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6"Every hour, the volcano erupts and the hi-tech wave machines start up, starting a few minutes of sanitised-----------------> surfing."
- Blah_Blah_Blah, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5if you RTFA you would know that they have a wave machine and that people do indeed surf there.
EDIT: olddirtycr beat me to it. - krinthekuz, on 09/16/2008, -1/+5totally sweet but totally old... open to the public for quite a few years now. however, since they're manmade waves, you get nearly the exact same wave every time, and since the roof closes up, the weather doesn't matter. as such, this is a huge place for surfing competitions.
- PaulOwen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3This is very sweet.
Particularly as it was opened ONLY 14 YEARS AGO.
http://www.robpongi.com/pages/comboSEAGAIAHI.html
and ironically, it's right next to a very nice beach outside. Even more ironically, I think the original developers of the resort went bankrupt. - Bullsnot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Not to mention cold as all heck Edmonton, where they really need artificial summer.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3impressive. only in Japan you'd see something like this..... or maybe Dubai (not much use there).
- nephilonic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3This is great for people that can't access a beach. Going to the beach is an awesome experience.
Living in Sydney where there are 40 beautiful natural beaches scattered throughout makes me forget that many people in the world have to travel for hours to get to the ocean. - slicedoranges, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4@ TGMD
What's wrong with your grammar? - mlmurray, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Why? Hello, this is Japan. Godzilla... Duh!
- jpop, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Also, you don't have to worry as much about the waste washing in from the ocean, or needles in the sand...
- Bullsnot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Actualy they have that at most of the large major waterparks. Most of them are probably no where near as big, but there are plenty of them.
- azurechaos, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3That's ***** ridiculous. Who the hell decided they needed another beach when there's one right there in the background that stretches for miles? It seems pretty pitiful that people would rather go to this than the actual ocean next door.
It'd be understandable if it was in the far inland interior of a country surrounded by land for hundreds/thousands of miles, but not here. While it is a really amazing structure and idea, just seems a terrible place to put it. - wssharp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2good luck finding a flame-spitting volcano at that other beach!
- Klarth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It's things like this that make me realise that we really are "living in the future" these days. Stunning.
- blackbelt88, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I feel sorry for the lifeguards at that place, although that is pretty damn awesome.
- Midnightbrewer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The Japanese are like that. Besides, there aren't *that* many places in Japan with good beaches. Kyushu in particular likes to find ways to attract tourists, being otherwise fairly rural and passed over in favor of Okinawa.
- PhantomBantam, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I sometimes read the comments before the article, but never POST without reading the article. – digg etiquette 101
- AllenS, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Wow, can you image that single Blendtec guy standing around in the back with his blender crushing that "sand." all day? Sounds like my ideal job...no stress...no fuss...just bliss....
- WaterDragon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2FTA:
"Every hour, the volcano erupts and the hi-tech wave machines start up, starting a few minutes of sanitised surfing."
They built one of these in Soviet Union, but instead of volcano, they build artificial earthquake..
...many lives lost.
They built one of these in Texas, but ... not to be outdone by the Japanese, they put in a tsunami machine.
...more lives were lost. - azurechaos, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I mean, yeah, it makes financial sense for them because I guess this is the sort of thing other people like. For me, though, it just seems backwards. Maybe I'm old-fashioned, but I like a real beach with all the good and bad.
- DroidBlender, on 09/18/2008, -0/+1lol, another feature of the indoor beach is that the water is always warm :O
nice find, dugg! - DRTED, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1NEXT UP: Japanese indoor lunar surface
- ShrimpCrackers, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Except in this case, the Future was built in 1993. There are lots of architectural genius in Japan.
- itsHef, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Neat, that is just damn nifty. Why can't we here in the states have something like this instead of crap like Six Flags or Disney?
- k4ng, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Does anybody know how long it takes for the roof to fully open?
- ioannusdeverani, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I love it! I would like to see something like that in the US
- 15charmaxwtf, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I dunno why anyone would want to voluntarily go to that place. Maybe if there were less people there and it was on Mars it would be nice.
- yoshitx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1In the late 80's early 90's the Japanese still clung to lifetime employment for all of their employees.
I can't recall exactly which shipbuilding company was (Fuji Heavy Industries?) behinds its construction, but they had a dry dock sitting there loosing money, and a bunch if engineers with nothing to do whose specialty was hydrodynamic. - handheldchimp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Second picture, there is a real beach about two miles away :)
- aMMgYrP, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@D81
"what kinds of crap lives off the coast of Japan?"
Godzilla? - ronfez, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1And it has been there for at least 20 years.
-
Show 51 - 76 of 76 discussions
© Digg Inc. 2009
— Content created and posted by Digg users is