Being a mountainous country Japan has lots of cable cars and ropeways. And it seems like every single one of them was built in the late 1920s / early 1930s. A lot of them were demolished after just a couple of years in the 1940s to support the war efforts of Imperial Japan (every piece [...]
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Yashima Cable Car – Lower Terminus
Posted in Abandoned, Asia, Hiking, Japan, Kagawa, Shikoku, Transportation, Video, Visited in 2011 on 2012/05/30 | Leave a Comment »
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 – [...]
F# Elementary School
Posted in Abandoned, Asia, Japan, School, Shikoku, Tokushima, Visited in 2010 on 2011/05/24 | 4 Comments »
I have to admit: After almost five years working for a big company in Japan my view on the country and its people changed quite a bit. Foreigners visiting Japan as tourists and exchange students tend to have a very romanticized image of Japan, even more extreme in the case of people longing to visit [...]
Big Mountain Pachinko Parlor
Posted in Abandoned, Asia, Japan, Pachinko, Shikoku, Tokushima, Visited in 2010 on 2011/05/09 | 4 Comments »
While I am happily taking credit for finding the hotel shangri-la it was thanks to Jordy that we entered the Big Mountain (or Big Mountein… as they misspelled their own name occasionally) pachinko parlor. We were on the road again to finally get to that abandoned school in the middle of the mountains when Jordy [...]
shangri-la
Posted in Abandoned, Asia, Hotel / Ryokan, Japan, Shikoku, Spa / Onsen, Tokushima, Visited in 2010 on 2011/04/28 | Leave a Comment »
After visiting the Sky Rest New Muroto in the southern part of Shikoku Jordy and I got back on the road to find an abandoned school in the middle of nowhere about 50 kilometers away. While the most popular way of finding places to explore seems to be (mostly useless) books like Nippon No Haikyo [...]
Sky Rest New Muroto (スカイレストニュー室戸)
Posted in Abandoned, Asia, Japan, Kochi, Restaurant, Shikoku, Video, Visited in 2010 on 2011/04/19 | 6 Comments »
The Sky Rest New Muroto (スカイレストニュー室戸) is a prime example of an abandoned place that suffered severly from too much attention – and by too much attention I mean the book “Nippon No Haikyo” (ニッポンの廃墟), which is pretty useless by now since it became victim of its own popularity. Unlike most books about abandoned places [...]
The Tokushima Countryside Healthspa (お水荘ヘルスピア)
Posted in Abandoned, Amusement Park, Asia, Hotel / Ryokan, Japan, Shikoku, Spa / Onsen, Sports, Tokushima, Video, Visited in 2010, Zombies on 2011/04/06 | 6 Comments »
Bathing is a very important aspect of Japanese culture, deeply rooted in centuries-old traditions. Although most apartments and houses have their own baths nowadays (unlike 30 years ago), public bath houses are still popular even in residential areas of big Japanese cities. Onsen and sentō are gender-separated places of tranquility where people enjoy a relaxing [...]
The Tokushima Countryside Clinic (徳島田舎診療所) – In Color
Posted in Abandoned, Asia, Hospital, House, Japan, Shikoku, Tokushima, Visited in 2010 on 2011/03/30 | Leave a Comment »
Okay, after quite a few articles about the Zone Of Alienation it’s about time to go back to Japan. I’ll return by posting the previously announced color set of a location I already described before the “Chernobyl & Pripyat” special: The Tokushima Countryside Clinic. I went there in November of 2010 and wrote a long [...]
The Tokushima Countryside Clinic (徳島田舎診療所)
Posted in Abandoned, Asia, Hospital, House, Japan, Shikoku, Tokushima, Visited in 2010 on 2010/12/24 | 8 Comments »
Doing urban exploration it’s hard not step into the trap of chasing only after the famous locations like Gunkanjima or Nara Dreamland – everybody has them (for good reasons), so you kind of gotta have them, too. But it’s important to stay open minded and not just look for the big ones when doing research. [...]
Haikyo Road Trip To Shikoku
Posted in Abandoned, Asia, Hospital, Hotel / Ryokan, Hyogo, Japan, Kansai, Kindergarten / Nursery, Kochi, Pachinko, School, Shikoku, Spa / Onsen, Tokushima, Visited in 2010 on 2010/11/24 | 14 Comments »
Recently I went on a three day road trip to Awaji Island and Shikoku. Fellow urban explorer Jordy came down to Kobe, we rented a car and off we went. Since Jordy likes to drive and I like to do research we combined our powers to go to some places off the beaten tracks. Pretty [...]
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