The underground exhibition shows that the new possibility about global warming as well. We could image a completely different image of the earth when we change our view; looking down the earth from space and looking up the earth from underworld. We don’t usually think of anything when we walk, but enormous things are happening beneath our feet.

The underworld has a very unique passage of time, a dynamic life, and the history of the earth and space, and they are still going on actively.

Lastly, let me introduce five rules we can see at the construction office which are expressed the awe of the underworld that human have.

1 Feel the earth
Underworld is the womb of the earth, think like it is the internal organs and let yourself go into there.

2 Know the earth pressure
Recognise that underworld is foam in soil consists of the balance of the pressure of a huge soil.

3 Close your eyes
Close your eyes when you arrive the underworld, look into the darkness. and yourself.

4 Think about the volume of the past history
Imagine there is accumulation of time which is beyond all our imagination.

5 Look at the sky
When you get out the underworld, look at the sky. Inhale the immensity of the sky and exhale the time.

– from the five rules of experience of underworld for geographers

Very philosophical words as Pom (an old guy in LAPUTA: Castle in the Sky) might say, they must be based on the real experience by people who work there.

In “Underground exhibition”, there are many interesting events like ” Ask the expert of underground!” which they invited a guest speaker. I would reccomend you to check their website and have a look the schedule.

What is hidden in the underworld which connects past and future?

Underground: Adventure in the darkness created by Imagination and Science
Date: September 22nd, 2007 – January 1st, 2008
Open: 10:00 – 17:00 (Closed on Tuesday)
Place: National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation (Miraikan)
Address: 2-41 Aomi, Koto-ku, Tokyo
Tel: +81 (0)3 3570 9151
http://www.miraikan.jst.go.jp