Onsen Town Theater Hot Spring Theater – that’s what was written in four kanji (温泉劇場, onsen gekijo) at the front of the building. And this was clearly a euphemism in many ways. First of all: The small building didn’t look like a theater at all. Which isn’t a surprise, because “hot spring theater” is common [...]
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Onsen Town Theater
Posted in Abandoned, Asia, Chugoku, House, Japan, Sex Industry, Strip Club, Video, Visited in 2012 on 2012/05/23 | Leave a Comment »
Yamaguchi New Zealand Village
Posted in Abandoned, Amusement Park, Animals, Asia, Chugoku, House, Japan, Museum, New Zealand, Restaurant, Video, Visited in 2012, Yamaguchi on 2012/04/27 | Leave a Comment »
When you think of Japan which other country comes to mind? Probably Korea since it’s a neighboring country and both countries share an inglorious common history. China, of course, a major influence for centuries – from city planning to food. Most likely the United States as no other country had more impacted on Japan in [...]
Moriyama Auto Camp / Mount Noro Speed Park
Posted in Abandoned, Amusement Park, Asia, Chugoku, Demolished, Hiking, Hiroshima, House, Japan, Race Track, Restaurant, Sports, Video, Visited in 2012 on 2012/04/20 | 2 Comments »
Expectations are one of the worst things in life. Especially when they are as high as mine were driving up to the top of Mount Noro in Hiroshima prefecture. What did I expect? A speedway abandoned in 1974 and a shuttered amusement park, also left behind in 1974. I didn’t see any photos in advance, [...]
On The Road Again – Southern Honshu Spring 2012
Posted in Abandoned, Amusement Park, Asia, Chugoku, Hiking, Hiroshima, Hotel / Ryokan, House, Japan, Military, Museum, New Zealand, Race Track, Sex Industry, Sports, Strip Club, Theater, Video, Visited in 2012, Yamaguchi on 2012/03/22 | 4 Comments »
Spring time is long weekend trip time! While Kansai doesn’t have much of a winter it nevertheless can be quite cold, especially when having a hobby involving taking pictures in abandoned places, other places of Japan can be snowed in for months with meters of snow… So when the sun finally warms the hearts of [...]
Former Iranian General Consulate (Persia House)
Posted in Abandoned, Asia, Consulate, House, Hyogo, Japan, Kansai, Map, Museum, Visited in 2012 on 2012/03/15 | Leave a Comment »
The Tohoku Earthquake of March 11th 2011 was a horrible, horrible event. I was on the 16th floor of an office building in Osaka at the time, almost 1,000 km away from the epicenter – but looking at the faces of my Japanese colleagues I could see that most of them remembered another horrible earthquake: [...]
Federal Armed Forces Depot Pfeddersheim (Bundeswehr-Depot Pfeddersheim)
Posted in Abandoned, Depot, Europe, Federal Armed Forces, Germany, House, Military, Rhineland-Palatinate, Transportation, Video, Visited in 2011 on 2012/02/16 | 6 Comments »
Japan is one of only 25 countries in the world without military – at least by some people’s definition. Others see it a little bit different thanks to Japan’s Self-Defense Force (自衛隊, Jieitai) with active personnel of about 240,000 people – plus about 60,000 in reserve. Abandoned military institutions are nevertheless rare in Japan, usually [...]
Haikyo HDR Photos
Posted in Abandoned, Amusement Park, Asia, HDR, House, Japan, Kansai, Kyushu, Mine, Nagasaki, Nara, Visited in 2010, Visited in 2011 on 2011/12/03 | 2 Comments »
Haikyo HDR photos or not… that was a big questions two years ago. From the start I wanted to keep Abandoned Kansai simple. A blog instead of a homepage, photos directly out of the camera instead of massive post production – resize to 1024*680, URL in the lower right corner. That’s it. No cropping, not [...]
The Lost Ruins Of Mount Yashima
Posted in Demolished, Hiking, Hotel / Ryokan, House, Japan, Kagawa, Map, Restaurant, Sacred Site, Shikoku, Visited in 2011 on 2011/11/28 | 2 Comments »
Nippon No Haikyo, probably the most famous Japanese book about urban exploration / haikyo since it was recommended plenty of times by both Japanese and foreign blogs because of its huge amount of maps, recommended Yashima as one of the top abandoned places in West Japan. In my opinion Nippon No Haikyo is vastly overrated – [...]
Sembach Air Base
Posted in Abandoned, Airport, Demolished, Depot, Europe, Fire Station, Germany, House, Military, Rhineland-Palatinate, Transportation, Video, Visited in 2011 on 2011/11/17 | 13 Comments »
The now abandoned Sembach Air Base has quite a long history. The location was first used as an airfield after World War I by the French occupation troops in 1919 with 10 sheet-iron barracks and 26 wooden hangars. When France retreated from Germany in 1930 the air base was abandoned on June 15th and the [...]
New (Old) Videos!
Posted in Abandoned, Amusement Park, Asia, Hotel / Ryokan, House, Hyogo, Japan, Kansai, Museum, Nara, Restaurant, Shiga, Video, Visited in 2009, Visited in 2010 on 2011/09/03 | 2 Comments »
Today I had a look at some rather old videos shot at locations I already wrote articles about. None of them were intended to be published, so the camera work might be a bit rushed occasionally, but I decided to upload them anyways as I think there might be some interest in them out there [...]
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