Good lord! That reminds me of all the humans stored in the real-world half of the matrix!

Moving this video to WolfDemon's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 3 days.

*beg

Sending this video to Beggar's Canyon to plea for a little attention - beg requested by original submitter WolfDemon.

Proving once again that Japan is the wild, wonderful world of wtf.

This is brilliant for Tokyo, though, because so many people bike to the train stations that the area surrounding a station is perpetually overflowing with bikes. It must be a real bitch though when this thing breaks down and some poor guy has to climb down there and retrieve the bikes by hand.

Some of the stats from the video:

1) It can retrieve a bike in 23 seconds.
2) The lot holds 9400 bikes total.
3) Each underground chamber is 15m deep and 7m in diameter.
4) One chamber holds 180 bikes; 36 chambers total under the station (I guess the remaining bikes are stored upstairs because 180*36 != 9400)
5) Rental cost is 100 yen per day (about $1 US) or 1800 yen per month (about $17.50 US).

This is soo cooool. I think the bicycle is one of the top ten objects made by us meatbags. I love my bike so much I kiss it.

^Please don't tell us what you do with the tyre pump.