Massive Elevator Can Move 80 People at a Time - Neatorama

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

Wel at least when there is a brownout, there is enough company in that elevator or enough space to have some privacy...

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Imagine all the stops you'd have to wait through if you worked on one of the higher floors!

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Makes sense I suppose, not even inefficient because it only needs to carry the weight of the people in it thanks to the counterweights.

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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 ;)

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Just what Japan needs, another place to pack in a bunch of groping pervs.

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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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