Sometimes you just gotta be lucky. Like I was on February 11th 2011. Living in central Kansai you kind of forget about winter. Temperatures drop to 5° Celsius and people complain about how cold it is. There are barely ever minus degrees. Sure, if you hop on a train and go to the nearby mountains [...]
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Nara Dreamland – Nara Snowland
Posted in Abandoned, Amusement Park, Asia, Hotel / Ryokan, Japan, Kansai, Map, Nara, Visited in 2011 on 2012/02/02 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Nara Dreamland – Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Posted in Abandoned, Amusement Park, Asia, Hotel / Ryokan, Japan, Kansai, Map, Nara, Night Photos, Restaurant, Video, Visited in 2009, Visited in 2010, Visited in 2011 on 2011/10/21 | 6 Comments »
# What is Nara Dreamland? – Nara Dreamland is an abandoned amusement park in Nara, Japan. It was closed in 2006 and abandoned without getting demolished – which makes it quite a unique urbex location since all the roller coasters, merry-go-rounds, souvenir shops, arcades and other attractions are still there. (Although it’s up for discussion [...]
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 [...]
Nara Dreamland Revisited: Daytime
Posted in Abandoned, Amusement Park, Asia, Japan, Kansai, Map, Nara, Video, Visited in 2010 on 2010/10/11 | 10 Comments »
After spending a whole night at Nara Dreamland it dawned at around 5.30am, so Mike and I went straight to the entrance area near the Dreamstation to begin our second round through the park. The atmosphere at Dreamland early in the morning is almost creepier than it is at night. The light was kind of [...]
Nara Dreamland Revisited: Nighttime
Posted in Abandoned, Amusement Park, Asia, Japan, Kansai, Map, Nara, Night Photos, Visited in 2010 on 2010/10/03 | 21 Comments »
If you are a regular reader of this blog then you know that I have a love-hate relationship with Nara Dreamland. Abandoned amusement parks are quite rare, especially those without any destroyed or sold attractions. Sadly both times I went there I spotted a security guard. Once he spotted me, too – a very, very [...]
Location Teaser 2
Posted in Abandoned, Amusement Park, Asia, Chūbu, Europe, Factory, Gifu, Hospital, Hotel / Ryokan, House, Hyogo, Japan, Kansai, Luxembourg, Map, Nara, Pripyat, Ukraine, Visited in 2010, Zone Of Alienation on 2010/09/28 | 4 Comments »
Looking at my urban exploration log I realized that I had a pretty good run lately. It all started when I met Michael of Gakuranman fame in late July – he was in Kansai and suggested to take on the famous Maya Hotel together. Since I already scouted the surrounding, but never went in, it [...]
Nara Dreamland – Hotel
Posted in Abandoned, Amusement Park, Asia, Hotel / Ryokan, Japan, Kansai, Map, Nara, Visited in 2010 on 2010/08/20 | 6 Comments »
I don’t know why, but people exploring Nara Dreamland seem to be so drawn to the roller-coasters and merry-go-rounds that they totally ignore the not so hidden gem that is dominating the northern part of the Eastern Parking Lot: I’m talking about the building with the strange observation tower. And a strange building it was… [...]
Nara Dreamland – Eastern Parking Lot And Parking Garage
Posted in Abandoned, Amusement Park, Asia, Japan, Kansai, Map, Nara, Transportation, Visited in 2009 on 2010/07/27 | 8 Comments »
It seems like Nara Dreamland is quite popular lately. The statistics on WordPress indicate that most of the visitors I get from search engines looked for information about Dreamland. Well, since the once so vivid memories of a crazy Japanese dude yelling like a madman and threatening me with calling the police to get me [...]
Nara Dreamland
Posted in Abandoned, Amusement Park, Asia, Japan, Kansai, Map, Nara, Visited in 2009 on 2010/02/10 | 7 Comments »
(Most search engines referring to this blog usually end up up here, although the main article about Nara Dreamland is considered the *Nara Dreamland Special* by now. For a look at the area around Nara Dreamland on GoogleMaps, including some fancy icons linking to articles on Abandoned Kansai and videos on YouTube, please *click here*.) [...]
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