You’ve all seen photos of spaghetti junctions and double-decker expressways cutting through urban Japan, but on a recent trip out into the mountains, I came across what can only be described as a “whirly-whirly” road.
The purpose of this extravagant helter skelter of a street is to get you high enough to drive over the mountain it perches on. The problem is, it makes you so dizzy you’re quite likely to drive through the railing and hurtle into the trees and rivers below!
While you can marvel at the power of creative imagination and extraordinary engineering involved in building this monstrosity, you have to wonder what lies on the other side of the mountain; something so special it warranted spending exuberant amounts of taxpayers’ money on the construction of a road that’s tantamount to a fairground ride.
And then you see it, the treasure at the end of the “whirly whirly” road…
