Just about anywhere in Japan you can find amazing artworks on manhole covers, each more beautiful and intricate than the next. Photographer S. Morita has been photographing these artistic manhole covers for the past several years. As to why this phenomenon developed, signs point to a high-ranking bureaucrat in the construction ministry who, in 1985,… Continue reading Japanese Manhole Cover Art
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Giant Green Hand Emerges From Manhole
A giant green hand sticks up from a manhole in the city of Tianjin, China. Local residents said they put it there to prevent accidents, as the manhole cover has been missing for more than a month.