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 much all of the locations will be English speaking firsts, some of them are even barely known to the Japanese haikyo community – including two original finds: A pachinko parlor with all the machines and a hotel called shangri-la. In addition to that we went to an abandoned monument (with a museum right next to it), another hotel, a nursery school, a restaurant with a spectacular view, an abandoned and very countryside elementary school, a spa built on a cliff and, most important of all, an abandoned doctor’s house that makes the previously posted Doctor’s Shack look like… well… a shack.
Please enjoy the preview pictures below – a series of articles about the trip will start ASAP, most likely by the end of this week.
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Abandoned Kansai 
Hi!
I wanted to go to SKY REST of Shikoku on my return before in going to Hyogo.
Shikoku next travels through the ruins!
Shikoku is really worth exploring since not a lot of people do it – especially the western part is almost unknown to the internet.
That Sky Rest one is the one for me! That’s the type of stuff I would want to explore.
The inside of that elementary school is in pretty good shape (though a lot is in good shape compared to that recent stuff you’ve shown :P).
So with the Panchinko, does no one know about it? Seems like that place would be ripped to shreds if people knew about it.
Too bad the Sky Rest suffered a lot from vandalism lately – pretty much everything there is ripped to pieces, but the building itself is unique and worth exploring.
The school is in decent condition and it will be even better soon – renovation has already started. Of course then it will be uninteresting as a haikyo.
People know about the pachinko parlor. There are ways in and a lot of machines were opened. It’s just that nobody wrote about it on the internet yet. Most visitors to haikyo are locals, only a few crazy people drive around and take pictures of those places…
Looking forward to seeing the locations!
I’m looking forward to writing about them. Hopefully soon…
Wow, that’s quite a trip. The school, pachinko parlor and doctor’s house in particular look fantastic.
Those were my favorites, too – although the spa was quite unique and the view at the monument was just breathtaking! Great vacation, I should do something like that more often…
Did you by any change come across an empty and creepy pirate ship in the hills? I have a photo of it that will make its way to Flickr eventually.
change/chance. Whoops 🙂
Hm… on Awaji Island or Shikoku? On Shikoku we actually came across a wooden building in the shape of a red ship – but it wasn’t empty, it looked like some kind of restaurant / gift shop and there were quite a few people / cars. I’m looking forward to seeing your photo, so please send me the link after you put it on Flickr!
It was on Shikoku. That must have been it. There was no one around when I saw it. I will show you the photo when it’s up 🙂
Ich glaube, wir haben uns schonmal kennengelernt. Du kommst aus Berlin oder?
Ich fürchte nicht… aber viel Erfolg mit deinem Blog über Mikrowellen; das ist ja schon ein ganz spezielles Thema…
HI there..thanks for making your blog,inspiring. I am in Kochi thru september and am looking for hints and rules of edicate in urban/suburban exploring. I am familiar to the hazards being a long time member of THR in back home in S.F. I am not into any activities other than documenting at this point and have ridden my bike across the sland and back in a day so I have a pretty good range even though I don’t have acess to a vechile.. I would love to hook up with anyone else making a trip down here to explore, knowing that I will soon be longing to speak english to native speakers motivates me even more to hook up with others. Please if you would point me in the direction of any exisiting information that you have if you are willing (I understand that some infiltraters are secretive from my time spent in the graf scene back home ) but I don’t feel that vibe from the postings I have seen of peoples adventures here.. look forward to hearing from you…Missterpissta@ gmail dot com
Thanks for reading it! I doubt I’ll have the chance to go to Shikoku soon, but maybe some readers will contact you – good luck! (And if the situation changes and I’ll go south again of course I’ll let you know!)