A new office building in Osaka, Japan, has the largest passenger elevators in that country. Each of the five elevators at the Umeda Hankyu Building:
[...] can each carry up to 80 passengers, or 5,250 kilograms in load. The interior of each car is 3.4m wide, 2.8m long and 2.6m high, with a floor space of 9.52 square meters.
Link via Popular Science | Photo: Mitsubishi Electric
Foreigner1
Wel at least when there is a brownout, there is enough company in that elevator or enough space to have some privacy…
EvilMonkeyNZ
Imagine all the stops you’d have to wait through if you worked on one of the higher floors!
Sander
Makes sense I suppose, not even inefficient because it only needs to carry the weight of the people in it thanks to the counterweights.
Christophe
Mmmm… 5250 kg for 80 people? In Japan ok, but I doubt this would work in America : 145 Lbs seems pretty light for the average weight 
Vonskippy
Just what Japan needs, another place to pack in a bunch of groping pervs.
PaulVI
You could just have your meeting in there.
Start the meeting, push your respective “floors”, then get out after you’ve presented your report.
Let’s say, 12 persons, 12 chairs and a long table, plus tech equipment as needed. (Better than 80 overweight Americans.)
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