After Michael and I finished shooting the Doctor’s Shack we walked about 30 meters along a small, dusty street to get to an abandoned house he found during his first visit to the Doctor’s Shack; Michael ran out of time back then and therefore didn’t have the opportunity to explore it.
The place looked like a typical Japanese countryside house built maybe in 70s and abandoned in the 90s, although both dates are pure guessing on my side. One floor, no basement, wooden floor and tatami mats, plastic lamps and chandeliers, walls you can punch through with your fist, and most important of all: quite spacious. Judging by how (hardly) known it is on the internet I guess it attracts way less visitors although it’s actually easier to find. But if it isn’t in a book and doesn’t have special things (like many bottles with chemicals in them…) I guess most people consider it uninteresting. And while the house of the doctor’s neighbours really wasn’t a haikyo highlight by any means it was interesting to go through a “normal” abandoned building, especially since it was already getting dark (thanks to an approaching rainstorm) and therefore shooting the place became kind of a challenge since neither of us had a (working) tripod. Luckily there were lots of places to put down the camera and I learned quite a bit about shooting under bad lighting conditions at Nara Dreamland, so I got at least a couple of decent shots. Decent, not spectacular, since it seems like the place was inhabited by normal people – there was nothing special to shoot, although somebody brought over some medicine vials from the Doctor’s Shack.
Next to the main building was a smaller one, most likely used for storage. And while Michael still had the patience to play around with some boxes and his headlight I got the heck out of there trying to finally escape the mosquitos…
(Michael combined both locations into one posting and you can read all about it here.)
Abandoned Kansai 
not that im an expert and im finding everything you have on here very fascinating, but the pic you couldnt delete looks like there is a face at the top in the mist.
A lot of Japanese people stay away from ruins / abandoned buildings, because they think that they are haunted. There actually blogs about ghosts and “ghostly” photos – and a lot of them were actually taken at more of less well-known haikyo.
Reminds me very much of the house Seita and Setsuko lived in with their aunt for a short time in Grave of the Fireflies, not really sure why but that’s what immediately struck me as interesting about your photos. I’m not a big photography guy (though obviously, I think all of your photos are excellent) but I am beginning to find Haikyo very interesting and all of your posts are very informative and fun to read.
Thank you very much for your kind words, Elias!
I haven’t seen Grave of the Fireflies in quite a while, but it’s set more or less in the same area (only 150 km direct line…). Usually I stay away from abandoned looking private houses as most of them are actually still inhabited, but this was was clearly abandoned for at least a decade.