News Japanese communities move overhead power lines underground

[thomas]

More and more Japanese communities are considering moving overhead power lines underground.

In 2017, as part of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism's initiative to revitalize urban landscapes, Tamba-Sasayama City in Hyogo Prefecture was chosen as a model district. The city began a project to remove overhead power lines in the castle town area to enhance its traditional ambience.


Here's a shot I took close to Futakotamagawa.

丹波篠山の歴史的な町並みを歩く　重要伝統的建造物保存地区「河原町妻入商家群」

丹波篠山市のプレスリリース（2024年10月29日 09時13分）丹波篠山の歴史的な町並みを歩く　重要伝統的建造物保存地区「河原町妻入商家群」

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Japanese communities giving their skylines a spring clean and saying goodbye to power lines

The quest to let Japan's historical sites shine bright continues on.

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[nice gaijin]

Good, the spaghetti aesthetic is so 20th century!

 

[Lothor]

Good, the spaghetti aesthetic is so 20th century!

That made me wonder what part of the 20th century. In the UK everything had been buried by the time I grew up in the 1980s. I've seen these articles appearing every few years to give the impression that progress is being made, but I cannot think of a single part of Tokyo that I regularly go to that has had its power lines buried in the last 20 years.