10 years ago it felt like every second abandoned place in Japan was either a hotel or a school. In recent years it seems like more and more of them are reused as community/art centers, restaurants or accommodations – so I’m glad that I still have some unpublished explorations in my archive.
Ahhhhh, the Japanese countryside! Rice fields as far as the eye can see – which isn’t really that far, to be honest, because… Japan. Mountains everywhere. Unless you are on a plain… with the plain people. Who make the plains less plain by constructing large buildings, limiting both the number of fields as well as how far you can see. So in the end you tend to be better off in the mountains. At least in my opinion. But I’m a bit weird in that regard.
In the good old 2010s there was this one day I went to the countryside with two acquaintances, both long gone now (not dead; they just left Japan after the average 3 to 5 years…). Halfway though the day we found the beautiful old *Japanese Countryside Rest Stop* by chance, but before that we’ve explored the Kansai Countryside School. Unfortunately there is very little to say about it, except that inside photos seem to be rather rare – for some reason even Japanese explorers seem to ignore this abandoned school, probably it looks (or at least looked) rather new from outside, despite being abandoned for a quarter or a century now. I remember it not being a very relaxed exploration, because I didn’t know what to expect – the chicks chickening out and not joining me for the actual exploration didn’t exactly help either, to be honest. What the point of exploring together when I end up exploring solo anyway?
The inside was in near pristine condition, though a lot of the interior had been removed, even the tables with sinks from the science room, which was rather weird. Well, enjoy the photo gallery. And maybe check out some other abandoned schools by *clicking here*.
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Quite pristine!
Another good one Flo, though quite empty. I wonder what those concrete bullseyes are for? maybe a long-gone archery class they had at the school?
cool 🙂