The Kansai International Airport has a very unusual location: the sea.<\/p>\n
An artificial island was constructed specially for the airport.<\/p>\n
It sees a whopping 25 million passengers travel through it each year.<\/p>\n
But there\u2019s a chance the airport will disappear completely in the next few years.<\/p>\n
READ MORE: Brilliant pilot successfully lands Airbus at \u2018world\u2019s most dangerous airport\u2019 in spectacular footage<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n In the 1960s, Japan needed to build a new international airport but couldn\u2019t find a spot that wouldn\u2019t garner noise complaints from residents.<\/p>\n So the country looked for an area where neighbours wouldn\u2019t be a problem: the sea.<\/p>\n <\/a>Thorfinn Stainforth . Wikimedia Commons<\/a>NASA \/ Wikimedia Commons<\/p>\n Engineers built an artificial island<\/a> called Kank\u016bjima off the coast of Osaka.<\/p>\n It\u2019s 2.5 miles long and 1.5 miles wide and took 10,000 workers and 10 million man-hours to build.<\/p>\n The island is only accessible by the Sky Gate Bridge and has two terminals on it.<\/p>\n Terminal 1 is 1.1 miles long and held the record for the world\u2019s longest terminal for a number of years.<\/p>\n To offset the environmental damage done by building a whole island, Kansai<\/a> maintains a massive solar farm<\/a>.<\/p>\n During its construction, sceptics pointed out that such a feat was dangerous in an area so prone to natural disasters.<\/p>\n Since then, the airport has survived a number of catastrophic earthquakes and typhoons<\/a> impressively unscathed. <\/p>\n But it faces a serious threat from a disaster of its own making.<\/p>\n <\/a>663highland \/ Wikimedia Commons<\/a>663highland \/ Wikimedia Commons<\/p>\n The weight of the island and the buildings are compressing the seabed silts they\u2019re built on.<\/p>\n This means the island is slowly but surely sinking.<\/p>\n It sunk over 26 feet in just five years, which is 25% more than what the engineers had predicted.<\/p>\n Some experts say it\u2019s got another 100 years before it totally disappears<\/a>, while others say it\u2019s closer to 25 years.<\/p>\n The country spent an eye-watering $20 billion on construction, a lot of which has gone towards solving the sinking issue.<\/p>\n That\u2019s a lot of money to potentially throw into the sea.<\/p>\n The post There is a $20 billion airport located in the ocean and it\u2019s blowing everybody away<\/a> appeared first on Supercar Blondie<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Kansai International Airport has a very unusual location: the sea. An artificial island was constructed specially for the airport. It sees a whopping 25 million passengers travel through it each year. But there\u2019s a chance the airport will disappear completely in the next few years. READ MORE: Brilliant pilot successfully lands Airbus at \u2018world\u2019s …<\/p>","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":41476,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[82,72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}