If you have been to Kansai International Airport in Japan, you might have noticed two very distinct towers along the way.
One is color blue and that is what I’m going to blog about.
This building was designed by the late Friedensreich Hundertwasser.
So what is this building?
This is actually Osaka’s water recycling facility for underground water. Thus the color blue, it is suppose to represent water.
Touring the facility is free but requires a reservation. Tour is mostly done in Japanese but you can ask an English audio guide during the reservation
Let’s take a tour of the facility.
A wall painting of the facility
The tour was only within the building but the weather was really nice and we had a really nice tour guide that he decided to take us all the way to the rooftop and show us around there too.
This tower actually contains 4 or was it 6 exhaust pipe.
After walking around the rooftop we went down on the base of the tower and continued our tour there. I’m not sure if this is still part of the official tour but hey I’m not complaining.
A storage area for the Sludge.
The back area of the facility.
This facility only recycles Underground water for Osaka City not Osaka Prefecture.
The by product are now being research to be used for pot making but some are actually used as construction material so nothing is thrown away.
It was really a very educational tour around this facility.
If you live in Osaka City, this is where your monthly payment goes for underground water treatment and of course your tax.