UPI en Español  |   UPI Asia  |   About UPI  |   My Account
Search:
Go

Meet the world's shortest escalator [VIDEO]

In a world where bigger is usually perceived as better it's easy to forget to give credit to the smallest of things, with this is mind this blog post honors the world's shortest escalator located in Kawasaki, Japan.
|
 
Updated Jan. 3, 2013 at 10:23 AM
Published: Jan. 3, 2013 at 10:01 AM

Because bigger is not necessarily better, YouTube user hippykiller1 took the time to upload this video of the world's shortest escalator. Though the 32.8 inches vertical rise of this moving staircase might not be particularly useful, the length of this Japanese basement escalator earned it a place in the Guinness Book of World Records as the World's Shortest Escalator.

The author of the video called the five-steps-long staircase "a thing of beauty and magnificence," and admitted to have ridden it seven times. To go on this magical ride you just have to travel to Kawasaki, Japan, hop off at Kawasaki's train station, look for More's department store and head to basement B2. The escalator will be near the parking garage.

Recommended Stories
© 2013 United Press International, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Any reproduction, republication, redistribution and/or modification of any UPI content is expressly prohibited without UPI's prior written consent.

Order reprints
Join the conversation
Most Popular Collections
'Star Trek Into Darkness' screening NBC upfronts Met Ball 2013
'Great Gatsby' premieres in New York Spire raised on top of One WTC 2013: Celebrity break ups and divorces
1 of 18
Palestinian  Security Forces Patrol the Border With Egypt.
View Caption
A members of the Hamas security forces patrol the border area between Gaza and Egypt, in the southern Gaza Strip May 20, 2013. Egyptian police angered by the kidnapping of seven colleagues by Islamist gunmen kept a crossing into the Gaza Strip closed again for four days, stranding hundreds of Palestinian travellers, As Tunnels between Egypt and Gaza closed and border was declared as military zone. Palestinian security forces patrol around the border, witnesses said. UPI/Ismael Mohamad
fark
Remember that mentally-handicapped newlywed couple that had to live in separate group homes? Well...
Football Coach can't beat up the other teams cheerleaders so he a) has players come help b) punches...
Best Koreans are serious as hell about protecting their fishin hole
Man whose face was chewed off in zombie-like attack still recovering -- by strumming guitar. Wait,...
Not news: 18-year-old student faces up to 15 years in prison for having sex with a 14-year-old classmate....
Hard to believe but something good comes out of an interview with one of the survivors of the terrible...