The WordPress statistics tell me that the following locations were the all time Top 6 on this blog as of May 2020:
Nara Dreamland
Hachijo Royal Hotel
Japanese Sex Museum
Japanese Strip Club
North Korea
Zone Of Alienation (Pripyat and Chernobyl)
This is a small selection of my personal favorites, though a somewhat complete list would be at least 50 or 60 locations long:
Kanemochi Mansions
Wakayama Hospital
Trump Hotel
Abandoned Dynamite Mine
People’s Park, Yanji
Tokushima Countryside Clinic
Japanese Sex Museum
Countryside Bowling
Wakayama Beach Hotel
The Lost Subterranean Shrine
Irozaki Jungle Park
Animal Scat Mine
Japanese Mental Hospital
Western Village
‘Doggy Land‘ (Revisited)
Volcano Onsen Hotel
Young People’s Plaza & Museum
Nakagusuku Hotel Ruin
Glücks-Königreich
Tenkaen – Japan’s Lost China Theme Park
Shime Coal Mine (part of the “Anti-Zombie Fortress” meme)
I would also like to mention the travel report about my *trip to North Korea* – an amazing experience!
To see a list of all the places published on this blog *please click here*.
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I am visiting Kansai in September and would like to explore haikyo. Would you be interested in meeting up?
Sure! Drop me a line when you have more details about your trip and we’ll see if our schedules match!
Amazing blog and you’ve taken some excellent photos. Have started to work my way through all posts 🙂
i am actually going to that sports land this weekend in izu ….we should do something some time
Hi Andy,
There are several water parks in Izu AFAIK – if you want to go to the famous big one you might want to check my *map of demolished places* first, because I am pretty sure the place you want to go to was demolished a while ago!
Very good idea of a blog and pictures theme! I wish I could spend more than 2 months in Japan and also find my “personal theme” here for exloration:)
Thanks a lot – though I would have never thought that I would blog on a weekly basis for four years and already have material for at least another two, even if I would stop exploring right away; which I won’t, because I still love exploring abandoned places!
You just find to have a topic you are passionate about! Could be anything anywhere in the world… you just have to stick with it for a while. It took Abandoned Kansai about two years to build an audience and get regular comments…