After I finished exploring the modern parts of the *Japanese Countryside University* I remembered some roped-off areas that I didn’t dare to step in out of respect for an elderly artist who was nothing but kind to me when I first entered the premises – but when he left, my urbex instincts kicked in and I just had to have a look. All those buildings I had already seen, they looked way too new for a university founded in 1964, so there must have been more… and there were!
The Japanese Countryside University definitely consisted of two parts; an older one from the 1960s and a newer one from the 1980s. The older part originally was a six floor main building across the street from the train station. On the third floor was a back exit / entrance leading to a book store and the old dormitory via a strange dark tunnel contruction that had written “Rape!” all over it. (Well, not really, but I felt like I could have been assaulted at any time and I was pretty sure that I was alone…) Down from the street a road was leading up, too, to what originally probably was a parking lot and now is the 1980s building complex.
Since I was coming from that elevated area I made my way through the pretty vandalized old dormitory, quite a mindblowing contrast to the immaculate modern building right next to it. It seems like the Japanese Countryside University was a women’s college with a 10 p.m. curfew, but all that was living in those original buildings now were a couple of gigantic and pretty fast spiders. Not like the colorful ones sitting in their webs everywhere, no, more like thin tarantula looking ones, the size of saucers…
From the dormitory I went straight to the old university building at the street and I understood immediately why the new buildings were constructed on elevated ground – even on a Sunday the noise was pretty annoying. Sadly most of the building was empty, so there wasn’t that much to see, nevertheless it was an interesting exploration. On the way out I took a couple of photos of the former sports ground. The soccer / track area was gone completely, but the tennis courts were still intact; somewhat overgrown though, reminding me of the *Asahi Sports Center*.
The Japanese Countryside University is still virtually unknown to the internet and I might have been the first foreigner to ever lay eyes on it, so this was a true exploration with new sights around every corner – not necessarily a spectacular one, but a new one! When I was planning this exploration I put together two train schedules for that day. One giving me 40 minutes to explore the Japanese Countryside University, in case the place was inaccessible, demolished or just uninteresting. The alternative plan gave me 1 hour and 40 minutes to explore, which is probably about the average time I spend at an abandoned place. More than 3 hours and 250 photos after my arrival I finally left this spectacularly unspectacular location I was longing to explore for more than a year – luckily it totally lived up to the high expectations I had.
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Looks like someone cleaned up before you arrived!
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Yeah, those buildings weren’t abandoned in a hurry. First at least part of the university *moved to the new buildings in part 1*, then the whole university moved to the main campus. That’s why there is not much left in those old quarters.
The building still looks somewhat new to my eyes. In fact, it would have actually been new during my own, personal school days. It seems like such a shame to abandon these structures.
I think the dormitory has been abandoned longer than the administrative building – and it shows, all the installations (bathrooms!) looked like they were from the 60s. The office building most likely was in use much longer, maybe even till the campus was closed. They took much better care of it, probably modernized it several times since it was built in the 60s…
Looks pretty cool. It’s a shame that it’s been cleaned out though. Would have liked to see stuff from around the time it was abandoned.
Hey renmi, yeah, the lack of actual university related items was a bummer, but since it was only a countryside campus moving back to the main university after 40 years, I guess it was only natural to move everything of value. From the road passing by, the office building looks just closed – which explains why there is hardly any vandalism and I found the place only on one Japanese blog.
Hey renmi, yeah, the lack of actual university related items was a bummer, but since it was only a countryside campus moving back to the main university after 40 years, I guess it was only natural to move everything of value. From the road passing by, the office building looks just closed – which explains why there is hardly any vandalism and I found the place only on one Japanese blog.
hello florian its dennis the vizsla dog hay wow that is a verry kreepy lukking tunnel and rather apokaliptik dormitory!!! and i see it wuz abandond so long ago that fones bak then didnt eeven hav numbers on the dial!!! ha ha ok bye
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You have captivated me with these pictures and that story, I want to find out more. Great find!
The wall resurfaced shot does a great job to show the detail of the deterioration.
Thanks a lot for your kind words!
Woah! Really cool location! And nice to see how kids dont get paint happy so quickly in Japan than in Finland. The outside hallway really gives the chills! Great pics again!
This is a really, really rare location. It popped up once on a Japanese blog that hasn’t been updated in a while. Very countryside, direct neighbors. It’s close to impossible to find if you don’t know where you have to look. If this building was at another place it might have been trashed a long time ago… 😦
And thanks – I like that set quite a bit, too!