Bizarre Japan Tourist Attraction #11,349
Throughout Japan (and I imagine throughout the world), you’ll find roads that have some specially designed grooves or bumps that will make a loud noise when driven over and wake up drowsy drivers.
In Hokkaido, however, they’re going one step further and constructing “melody roads” – roads that have specially constructed grooves so that it makes a recognisable melody when driven over.
The Hokkaido Industrial Research Institute can be blamed for this. Grooves are carved into the road between 6 and 12mm apart. The closer the grooves are, the higher pitched the sound. Apparently, the plan is to carve melodies into the roads that have some significance to the locality. Oh dear.
Click here to hear a sound clip of one of Hokkaido’s Road Melodies.
Links:
Seihin-World
Dottocomu
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