The woman with an umbrella was going down the stairs set up on the steps

Woman going down the stairs provided on the steps

If you underestimate Nishi-Shinjuku, with its skyscrapers including the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building, you sometimes get the short end of the stick. When I started walking from the Hilton Tokyo, I thought I had been walking on the surface of the earth for a long time, but then I realized that the surface of the earth was much lower than where I was. I don't remember walking up the hill, but the Metropolitan Government Street I was walking on has been elevated before I knew it. Nishi-Shinjuku is where the Yodobashi Water Filtration Plant, which was in operation until 1965, was discontinued and redeveloped. The site of the water purification plant must have been mostly flat, since the water was treated by sedimentation and filtration to supply water to the water supply system. Nevertheless, there are steps in Nishi-Shinjuku today. Why is this?

The reason is simple. It is because the base of the high-rise building was the bottom of the pond at the water purification plant. Although the site of the water purification plant itself was flat, a pond was excavated to store water, and the first floor of the high-rise buildings was based on the bottom of the pond. As a result, the second and third floors of the high-rise buildings are said to be the ground surface around Shinjuku Station. This is the reason why it is difficult to tell where is the ground surface when walking in Nishi-Shinjuku.

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