Fuji inspired X-Seed 4000 to house 1 million people. Pyramids not impressed

You’d think after all these years of Godzilla attacking Tokyo, they’d know not to build mountain sized buildings in Tokyo Bay (isn’t that where Godzilla lives!?). They’re just asking for something bad to happen to it. No wonder they aren’t coming out with new Godzilla movies any time soon – they’re waiting for this thing to come around.

For 300 – 900 billion dollars, Japan could build a self-sustaining “Utopian” mountain in the middle of Tokyo Bay. It would be supported by gigantic pillars, house up to a million people, and most likely snow naturally near the top. It would take up six square kilometers, and shoot 13,123 feet into the air…that is approximately 700 feet taller than the genuine Mt. Fuji, but who’s keeping track of details like that anyways? Certainly not the 1731 ft tall Sears Tower, which would be around ten times shorter than this monstrous mountain / building thingy. If something like this were actually built (highly unlikely) all the people living too close to Mt. Fuji to see it will finally be able to look out into the distance and enjoy something almost entirely not as beautiful as the real thing.

Now, I’m not sure how something like this would be constructed, so don’t ask, but I imagine Transformers would take a large part in things. Asimo isn’t quite ready yet. Either way, if they actually do start building this, I will so travel to Japan every year for the next 800 years to watch it get completed. From a business perspective, the X-Seed 4000 is a very interesting concept. It would create tons of new jobs and tons of new homes – yet, it would be all in a very enclosed space. I imagine in a “city” this large it would be very difficult to get to the mainland so something like this would be very enclosed, have its own economy, and even have its own society. A mountain-sized city could create an economic boom all by itself with all the new businesses it would have to open up (that is, after they pay off their 900 billion dollar mortgage).

Here are some more pictures of an older version:

Look at all that wasted space! That building in the middle must be the Soilent Green Gazebo

No more light for the fishies

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Sources: Gizmodo and Inhabitat

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