Japan’s National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience (NIED) currently houses the world’s largest rainfall simulator in Tsukuba, and it’s essentially a warehouse-sized building that can be moved on rails over five experimental positions.
Various structures and terrain can be installed in this facility, as the rain falls with four different drop sizes at a rate between 15-300 mm/hour. As you can see, the latter is near the most intense rainfall ever reported on Earth and not something you want to be experience firsthand. NIED is typically used by researchers to analyze landslides, debris flow, soil erosion, urban flooding, and more. However, we wouldn’t be surprised to see it used as a movie set / sound stage either.
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