@twosidetrips: This $20B airport was built to sink into the ocean — and it's still happening today. 🇯🇵✈️ The engineering behind Kansai is unreal. Kansai Airport cost $20 billion to build. The moment it opened, it started sinking into the ocean , three centimetres every single year. And engineers always knew it would never stop. So Japan did something no country had ever tried. They hide hydraulic jacks beneath the entire terminal. As the island sinks, the building silently rises to meet it. Right now, those jacks are working. The airport is fighting the ocean in real time. The bridge connecting it to the mainland? Built as two completely separate structures side by side, because if they were joined, the sinking island would tear them apart. This airport has been proving engineers wrong for 30 years. And if you're flying into Osaka, you're landing on an island that was never supposed to survive. #kansai

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Tuesday 07 July 2026 22:00:54 GMT