Japan Earthquake Simulation | Rinkai Disaster Prevention Park in Tokyo

In this video, we’ll visit the Tokyo Rinkai Disaster Prevention Park, which is famous for its Japan earthquake simulation technology.

The Tokyo Rinkai Disaster Prevention Park is a fascinating place that features amazing earthquake simulation technology. This technology allows you to experience the effects of an earthquake firsthand, and it’s a great way to learn about Disaster prevention.

What is Rinkai Disaster Prevention Park?
In the event of a large-scale disaster, such as an earthquake centered below Tokyo, The Tokyo Rinkai Disaster Prevention Park acts as a central base of operations for disaster prevention in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area that houses emergency response facilities including local disaster management headquarters, as well as institutions that compile disaster-related information and coordinate emergency disaster measures.
The park is also a disaster prevention facility that acts as a core base camp for regional assistance units and a base of support for disaster medical care that functions in an integrated manner with the Higashi Ogishima region (Kawasaki City) distribution control center.

Where is Rinkai Disaster Prevention Park?
The Tokyo Rinkai Disaster Prevention Park is located in Ariake, which is a district in Kōtō, Tokyo, Japan.

How to reach Rinkai Disaster Prevention Park?
From one of the central station called Shinjuku Station, take the Saikyo Line to Shin-Kiba Station, then get off at Hokusai-Tenjijo Station.
From there, Rinkai Disaster Prevention Park is only 6 minutes walking distance away.
Other option is to catch the Yurikamome Line and stop over to Ariake Station.

What is Rinkai Disaster Prevention Park famous for?
As a country prone to natural disasters, Japan makes disaster prevention and response a priority.
The sprawling Tokyo Rinkai Disaster Prevention Park is home to the functioning headquarters of the disaster strategy response unit serving the Tokyo metropolitan area.The park has a visitor center, where you will be able to join a tour that includes a simulation of a large-scale earthquake in an urban setting.
You’ll learn how to survive in the first crucial hours following a disaster, with interactive quizzes to test your knowledge.

Headquarters Building:
The entire facility (including the transmission antenna tower) is situated on top of a seismic isolation system.
The facility is connected (over land and through satellite) to all government agencies as well as all prefectural and municipal governments via the CAO’s Disaster Prevention Radio Communication System.

Experience Center:
Here you can experience Tokyo earthquake simulation seventy-two hour tour.
The tour start with an earthquake measuring upper 6 on the Japan Meteorological Agency seismic intensity scale hits while you are descending in an elevator at a train station building.
The floor shakes and the elevator screeches to an emergency stop.
After getting out of the elevator, you walk down a dim maintenance corridor with no electricity.

Learning Center
Information lounge is a place to relax as well as a library of disaster prevention information.The library is equipped with a mini-theater system that will introduce you to what an earthquake centered under Tokyo would be like in an easy-to-understand manner.
You can also experience a PC-based disaster prevention quiz, a library of educational disaster prevention video footage, and other materials during your visit.

Opening Hours & Prices in Rinka Disaster Prevention Park?
The park is open 9:30AM to 5PM. for visitor.
Latest entry is 4:30PM.
It is closed on Mondays.
Open on Monday when it is a public holiday, and closed on the next day.
Closed also on year-ends and new-year holidays and temporary closed days.
There is no fee for entry into the park or its facilities.

What to eat at Rinkai?
There is a small cafe to eat snacks and drink coffee or soft drinks.

What else to do around Rinka Disaster Prevention Park?
After experiencing The Tokyo Rinkai Disaster Prevention Park, enjoy restaurants and shopping at the nearby Ariake.
Ariake Garden is a large scale shopping and entertainment complex in Tokyo Bay conveniently located between the Toyosu Market and Odaiba.
Stroll along the bayside promenade around Toyosu, visit the nearby Teamlab Planets, Toyosu Fish Market, Toyosu Gururi Park, or admire

Is it worth visiting Rinkai Disaster Prevention Park?
Since it is a first-degree earthquake zone, Japan attaches great importance to education about natural disasters.
The Tokyo Rinkai Disaster Prevention Park, which is fully equipped, also offers natural disaster education opportunities to the whole community, starting from school age.
If you live in an earthquake zone and have a plan to visit Tokyo, I recommend you to visit this place.
You can be sure that it is a place worth visiting.

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