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Just a couple of hundred meters down the road from the Imari Kawaminami Shipyard is another haikyo – visible from both the street and the train tracks next to it the place is nevertheless often overlooked…

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Google launches Google+ – and Abandoned Kansai finally has a Facebook page… If you like this blog even just a little please *click it here* to like it on Facebook, too.

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Darn, me and my timing again… In my previous posting I referred to Gakuranman’s article about the Imari Kawaminami Shipyard – he mentioned a discussion in 2010 about demolishing the place; and I expressed how happy I was it didn’t happen between his visit and mine. Well, it seems like things are moving forward. The [...]

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The Imari Kawaminami Shipyard (伊万里川南造船所), also known as the Kawanami Uranosaki Industrial Shipyard (川南工業浦之崎造船所) or the shorter version Kawanami Shipyard, is one of the best documented urban exploration spots (haikyo / 廃虚) in Japan. Pretty much all blogs about the topic cover the shipyard, Japanese as well as those written by foreigners living or visiting [...]

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About 15 months ago I went on my first multi-day urban exploration trip: 3 days to Kyushu with my buddy Enric. A trip with lots of up and downs, visiting some amazing locations – Gunkanjima, the Katashima Suicide Training School and the winding tower of the Shime Coal Mine, now known to some people as [...]

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