Abandoned hospitals are always exciting to explore – especially when they haven’t been ransacked by vandals and feature a lot of the original interior plus some really cool natural decay. Finding those places can be extremely difficult, but sometimes all you need is luck and good people skills in Japanese…
The abandoned Kanto Hospital wasn’t even on the itinerary my old urbex buddy Michael and I had when we bumped into a bunch of young Japanese explorers at another location. Michael, who’s smooth talking got us into the *Hiroshima New Zealand Farm* years ago, chatted with the youngsters for a while and then suggested a change of plans – our new friends had volunteered a location Michael knew existed, but I didn’t even have a clue about; but I enjoy deserted clinics as much as the next guy, and we still had a few hours of daylight left… usually enough even for good / big locations.
The “problem” with little known locations is, that there usually is also hardly anything known about their history – and though this one is still on GoogleMaps with its real name, you won’t find anything about it on the internet; not even pictures, as explorers made up fake names. Well, you won’t find anything except for its location, phone number and basic details. The kind of information you don’t want to share about a rare destination on a blog…
Based on information gathered while exploring, the Kanto Hospital was probably built and opened in the late 1960s. Judging by the calendars in the 4-storey building, it was closed in 2008, most likely in October; a calendar for the next year already lying around in the main office on the ground floor.
As you can see in the video walkthrough, the two upper floors of the clinic were not really that interesting (if you are curious about or irritated by the unusual background music: outside was a local festival going on – I recorded the tour on purpose during the performance as I thought it contributed to the creepiness of the place). A few items here and there, surprisingly empty patient rooms, a cleared out laboratory and a small library on the top floor. The second floor featured the hospital’s signature room, the surgery with its two massive adjustable operating lights. The rather dark and gloomy ground floor though was where we spent the most time as there was so much to see. A doctor’s office with a massive safe, a storage with countless X-rays and boxes with Konica Minolta medical film, several treatment rooms with all kinds of machines and items, an office with dozens of different brands of medicine (including a whole box of Kremezin, used to treat chronic renal failure), …
Overall the Kanto Hospital was a good exploration that benefited quite a bit from the unsteady weather and the surprising turn of events that day. My favorite parts were the eerily decayed staircase (only in the videos), the info posters on the walls and the fact that the only messiness came from previous urbexers going through the drawers – no BB bullets, no graffiti, no pointless destruction and chaos for the sake of it.
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So creepy.
Indeed! 🙂
Amazing. There is a lot of valuable equipment and medications left here. In the US it would all be stolen and homeless people would move in.
Yeah, seven years of abandonment and the ground floor was still basically untouched.
Yes, a pleasure to see an intact location.
Indeed – luckily in Japan that’s the case more often than not. 🙂
cool,yea i guess if this would be here lots of medication would be stolen by drug addicts lol…not to mention everything from metal
This is a rather rare location, located near quite a busy street – I guess that’s why it is still in good condition. Stealing metal would make quite a bit of noise in addition to the problem of getting in and out unseen.
well here its quite usual,already happened some guys wanted to stole metal from abandoned warehouse,and they accidentally cut the main pillar and whole warehouse fell on them and killd them,and its not only cause like this here
Abandoned hospitals are a bit creepy, aren’ they ? I wonder if you’ve been to abandoned insane asylums.
They are indeed! I’ve never been to a European / American style asylum, but earlier this year I explored an abandoned mental hospital in a Tokyo suburb: https://abandonedkansai.com/2015/01/13/japanese-mental-hospital/
Have you posted that yet, or maybe you already did, and I missed it. I’ve never seen a Japanese asylum.
Looks like a great explore, and I think the music in the background really adds to the creepiness!
Thanks – usually I get annoyed when music starts to play or a car makes some loud noises in the background, sometimes I actually start over, but in this case it was kind of the perfect OST. 🙂
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This has to be one of my favorite posts on your blog, what a truly special location!
Thanks a lot – when we woke up that morning, we didn’t even know that this Location existed… weird day! 🙂