Funny thing is the beach they built is located in the coastal city of Miyazaki, only a 5 minute drive from the actually ocean. Aparently, this place holds the Guinness World record for being the world's largest indoor water park (300m by 100m). From the maps (as seen on Google Earth) it looks like there are plenty of beaches in the area. You would think something like this would be built in a landlocked and/or cold city like Sapporo in Hokkaido. I guess if it were raining and you were a busy Japanese family on a rare weekend holiday to the seaside then the Ocean Dome would be a way to salvage the weekend. This is an interesting, if not exactly necessary, piece of engineering. Another cool note: the roof retracts (like a stadium roof in the US) for those nice, sunny days.
Hopefully I will get to see some cool works of engineering like this when I am in Japan.
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