This is the final report from our 2017 Japanese urbex road trip—and it features a location I will never forget, as I still bear the scar from it to this day. We are in Gunma Prefecture, where a sort of holiday camp sits right next to a very busy road. You can’t miss it; there…
A cult, a touch of the macabre, perversity, and mystery—prepare yourself to discover an exceptional abandoned site in this report. We are driving along a narrow mountain road in Ibaraki Prefecture to reach a temple abandoned since 2002. It was inaugurated in 1987, and its closure was brought about by a dark affair of embezzlement…
Nearsighted or farsighted, here is a forgotten place that might just strike a chord with you: an abandoned ophthalmology clinic, no less. A little gem located near a very busy road in Chiba Prefecture, Japan. We carefully explore this unusual derelict spot, where every single corner feels like a fragment of history to be studied….
To find this abandoned hotel, you really need a sharp eye; without GPS coordinates, I think we would have circled it for hours. Despite being right on the roadside, the place goes completely unnoticed thanks to the dense vegetation. We are in the Chiba Prefecture in Japan to explore a place that is truly extraordinary—at…
Western Village is undoubtedly the most beautiful abandoned place we’ve had the chance to explore, a major milestone of our Japanese road trip. Located in Nikko, a city in Tochigi Prefecture about 150 kilometers from Tokyo, this theme park has been abandoned since December 7, 2006. Before reaching our destination, we had no idea how…
Built in 1918, this hospital appears to have been abandoned since 1963, according to the last documents found on-site; in fact, the calendars still hanging on the walls all displayed that very date. Located in a small town along a busy road, we would have driven right past it without GPS coordinates; the vegetation camouflages…
What a perilous exploration! Our destination was Nichitsu, an abandoned mining town tucked away since the 1980s in the Saitama Prefecture—a place completely lost in the mountains. Back in its heyday, the town was home to 3,000 residents, but today it is entirely deserted, save for a section of the mine that remains active. We…