My first visit to the “Doggy Land” in early December was abruptly ended when the police showed up to re-enact a car accident. Seven weeks later I came back to finally have a closer look at that strangely fascinating dog theme park that was opened in the summer of 2001 and closed in the summer of [...]
Archive for January, 2010
“Doggy Land” Revisited
Posted in Abandoned, Amusement Park, Animals, Asia, Hyogo, Japan, Kansai, Visited in 2010 on 2010/01/31 | 1 Comment »
Sekigahara Menard Land
Posted in Abandoned, Amusement Park, Asia, Chūbu, Demolished, Gifu, Japan, Visited in 2010 on 2010/01/27 | 8 Comments »
I recently stumbled across Sekigahara Menard Land again after seeing pictures a while ago; it opened in 1972 and was closed in 2000 – at first under the pretext of renovating it; 3 months later it was closed for good. This time the pictures came with a map, so finally I had the exact location [...]
Koga Family Land
Posted in Abandoned, Amusement Park, Asia, Demolished, Japan, Kansai, Shiga, Video, Visited in 2009 on 2010/01/23 | 10 Comments »
Koga Family Land (thanks to weird transcription of the original Japanese also known as Kouga Family Rand) in Shiga has the reputation of being one of the most impressive and most documented abandoned places in Japan. Well, I guess it’s more correct to say it had that reputation, because of after more than 20 years [...]
“Doggy Land” (New To The Net?)
Posted in Abandoned, Amusement Park, Animals, Asia, Hyogo, Japan, Kansai, Visited in 2009 on 2010/01/20 | 4 Comments »
Urban exploration usually means visiting places that many people have been before – in most cases those ruins are off the beaten tracks and therefore hard to find. Some places are well known on the internet, some are not. But in the end most of them have pictures and maybe even a description online or [...]
Mt. Atago Hotel
Posted in Abandoned, Asia, Hiking, Hotel / Ryokan, Japan, Kansai, Kyoto, Visited in 2009 on 2010/01/18 | Leave a Comment »
When visiting the Mt. Atago Cable Car you should have a look at the Atago Hotel, too – there’s not much left, but after climbing about 640 meters 20 more won’t kill you. The Atago Hotel was opened on 1930-07-20, shortly after the cable car, and closed down together with it in 1944. Like the [...]
Welcome!
Posted in Uncategorized on 2010/01/08 | 9 Comments »
Hello and welcome to Abandoned Kansai! My name is Florian and I’m a German expatriate living and working in the Osaka area. This is my first blog and I am not a native English speaker, so please don’t be too harsh with comments – I’m still learning. That also applies for the pictures I’ll put [...]
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