Thirty-nine stories in the air, the glass-enclosed escalator at the Floating Garden Observatory in Osaka's Umeda Sky Building is...well, our feelings are best summed up by a Frommer's writer:
I'm not afraid of heights, but taking an escalator over thin air in an earthquake-plagued nation certainly caught my attention; it made the "floating" observatory feel safe in comparison.
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Just make sure you tie your laces, lest you be sucked under the escalator and dropped 36 floors to your death.
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DISCUSSION
it's true, earthquakes and terrorism might scare people away from tall buildings, but for the most part, the human race is intrepid and just moves on. i love that. we need more buildings like this.
i hate to use a quotation that has become a cliché but..
"the only thing we have to fear is fear itself."