A nice little original find along of one of Japan’s most beautiful coastlines – the Seto Inland Sea Rest Stop!
The Seto Inland Sea separates three Japanese main islands (Honshu, Kyushu, Shikoku) from each other and is part of eleven prefectures. While some areas are highly industrialized (especially the part from Kansai Airport to Himeji and near cities like Hiroshima, Takamatsu, and Tokushima) others are popular tourist spots famous for their beauty – like Miyajima, the Seto Naikai National Park, and Shodoshima). And where you have tourists, you almost automatically have abandoned tourist infrastructure, like hotels and restaurants.
The Seto Inland Sea Rest Stop was a large restaurant and omiyage shop in one of those touristy areas – closed and boarded up about 15 years ago according to the last calendar. I found this place by chance on GoogleMaps and it turned out to be a nice, quick exploration I’ve never seen anywhere else before… or after. Not a spectacular place, but with lots of parking space and rather easy access – and relaxed original finds I’ll take over photographed to death spots any day, especially since this one hasn’t been vandalized (yet). A fun little spot that offered some nice photo opportunities with an abandoned, but not rundown / destroyed look. If it was for me, I’d do one of those every other weekend…
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Hmm, not a bad find!
I’ll take a “not bad” new one over a good photographed to death one at any time 🙂
Yes, indeed!
what an interesting place –
Thank you!
Eerily beautiful … thank you for sharing (as always!)!
Interesting that the toilet building has graffiti but the main building is untouched it seems?
My pleasure – thanks for reading and leaving a comment!
Well, graffiti vandals are cowards. The main building was visible from the road, the toilet building was not or only barely; much lower risk of getting caught. So apparently vandalizing is more important than their “art” being seen…
Ha … that makes perfect sense. Nonetheless, I’m glad! It allowed you a nice little exploration and beautiful photos for us 🙂
nice 🙂
Thanks!