Is there an element of truth to Evangelion?

Factual Questions
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I just came across this little tidbit

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?fl20030301a1.htm

Comments? And does anyone have any other interesting stories about other underground cities like London?

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You should check out www.infiltration.org, a website about urban spelunking in Toronto. Not much here on government conspiracies, but his techniques probably mirror those used by Shun Akiba.

That said, I suspect the guy who wrote this book is full of it. Ask any Dopers from Boston how a big an opperation it is to dig a few dozen km of tunnel, and then try to figure out how anyone could have snuck an extra 1000 km into Tokyo’s underground without anyone knowing it. At first the article seemed somewhat legit. Is it possible that there are some secret instillations under Tokyo dating back to the war? I wouldn’t doubt that. But once he starting talking about there really being 2000 km of tunnels under the city instead of 250 km, I realized he was a quack. Most of his other “mysteries” can be written easily. Most subways I’ve ridden on have locked service doors too, but I don’t assume that there’s some secret Cobra Terrodrome behind them. Nor do I freak out because I just passed a shunt or passing track that the subway map doesn’t list. And the part about having to drill through cocrete that was already there has more to do with the fact that Toyko is prone to earthquakes and therefore needs extra-deep foundations for its skyscrapers than, say, Nashville. I also like the Japanese newspaper reporting on the fact than no Japanese media agency will touch this guy with a ten-foot pole.

Now watch the entire city transform into Metroplex the minute North Korea lobs a few missiles at it.

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Evangelion?? A secret city beneath Tokyo sounds more like the anime Tokyo Underground to me.

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I read this… I wouldn’t think there’d be anything down there other than the odd abandoned shunting station , or perhaps some side-tunnel built for temporary use when building the place.

(Perhaps I should mention that in Neon Genesis Evangelion, Tokyo-3 is built mostly underground, but entire buildings can pop up when it’s safe. This might seem to be an excessive length to go to, but when you’re living in the Matchstick City, and it’s been blown up not just the usual once (typically then called “Neo-Tokyo”), but twice, it pays to be prudent.)