Aperture of Japan is one of the objects that exist in the city ramble bukittinggi and is a historical relic of the Japanese residence during his stay in bukittinggi.
Due to a very strategic Bukittinggi, located in the middle - the middle island of Sumatra, the Japanese invaders set bukittinggi city as Japanese army defense command center in Sumatra (seiko sikikan kakka) led by generals Watanabe.
As for the Japanese military fortifications made tunnel under the heart of Bukittinggi, besides functioning as a defense was also prepared as a store of ammunition, barracks, dining room, hospital, court room and kitchen, a total of 27 rooms and is a complete complex, such as floor plans which can be seen on the entrance wall.
The length of the hole contained this panoramic location approximately 1400 meters, while the overall length of which is under the city bukittinggi estimated more or less around 5000 meters, thus the manicured / maintained only 30% of the existing holes.
The main purpose of this hole is the basis of Japanese military defense of Japanese colonial allies attack the construction is very confidential, and no one knows exactly when this Japanese hole began to be built. Can only be predicted a few months after March 1942, when Japan seized the city from the hands of the Dutch government bukittinggi.
Unskilled workers to multiply these holes taken from the people - who were arrested Indonesian people from other regions, such as from the island of Java, Kalimantan, South Sumatra, etc., while the catch of his own bukittinggi daetrah brought up again to another to force it also employed on the project - Other projects, such as le lodges for m, embuat railroad which will connect Muaro Sijunjung with pekanbaru riau. But this work does not go slesai, because the Japanese defeat in the hands of trigger-Allied Army.
Technical workers in the construction of this hole to be taken from people - people who work in Indonesia coal mine Ombilin Sawahlunto originating from the island of Java.
All unskilled workers are not sati nobody paid that can save themselves, all of them die due to lack of food and torture of the Japanese army. So that confidentiality is maintained holes.
Although this hole can be completed, but have not been utilized completely, because japan trigger succumbed to the allied forces of two atoms due to the allied forces dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima City on December 7 and 8 August 1945, and continues with diproklamirkannya independence of the Republic of Indonesia on dated 17 August 1945 by Soekarno - Hatta.
When this hole is quite crowded Japanese tourists visited by both Overseas and the archipelago and is a favorite tourist attraction in bukittinggi and even West Sumatra.
Condition In the Tunnel
From the gate, We Stairs down as much as 135 fruit, if this stair height - average 20 cm, Thus the 135 steps That means We have come down as high as 27 m. If We compare again Nowhere We stand now with the existing road above us, has a height difference of about 5 m. From these Calculations Know That They will from the base of hole ranging from 30 to 40 m depth from the This is Considered Safe Enough water by the Japanese against attacks from the allies.
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