Cool site of Japanese modern-day ruins "Haikyo Deflation Spiral" !

[UdoKier]

I love the tongue-in-cheek name of the site, "Haikyo (ruins) Deflation Spiral".

This one is run by a guy who calls himself "Hamtaro". I've corresponded with him a bit and he's a nice guy.

It's all Japanese, but this is the link through a portal that adds rough translations.

http://nifty.amikai.com/amiweb/browser.jsp?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhome.f01.itscom.net%2Fspiral%2Fresearch.html&langpair=2%2C1&toolbar=no&lang=JA&c_id=nifty


Here is the regular Japanese site, if you can read it.

http://home.f01.itscom.net/spiral/research.html


The ones that say "on air" are ready to look at. The ones that say "ready" are actually not yet ready but are being prepared still. These photos are great.

This is from my favorite, a hotel called "Komagarien"




The "Jewel Bath".

Enjoy! I love modern ruins.

[Madrone]

1. awesome picture.

thanks for sharing!

[Lydia Leftcoast]

2. The Komagarien looks as if people have been

squatting there, given the bedding in the hallway and other sloppy marks of habitation.

[UdoKier]

3. Unfortunately the whole joint has recently been bulldozed.

I liked it because it has a lot of additions rambling up the hillside.

I love old buildings with a lot of rambling additions, esp. when it gets funky and mazelike.

[UdoKier]

4. Kick.

I have been interested in modern ruins since I was a kid. I spent my summers on my Grandma's defunct poultry ranch, which had once been the largest in the US. There were all kinds of fascinating things in the carious outbuildings and apartments and offices.

When my wide and I were dating, we explored the ruins of an old hotel and marina on the edge of California's hellish Salton sea, (It was razed in 2001).

I'll post a few pics in another thread.

[Taxloss]

5. A brilliant site, thank you.

I used to have a link to similar sites devoted to British, European and American modern ruins, but they were all lost with my computer.

[UdoKier]

6. Cool thing about Japanese ruins...

Bankruptcy laws being different (and bankruptcy being a much bigger stigma) than in the U.S., business owners who are going often try to keep up the appearance that everything is great until the last minute, and then just disappear into the night "yo-nige", leaving their businesses exactly as they were on the last day of business, whereas US businesses usually clean things up and sell things off. That's why you find so much more interesting artifacts and a feeling of suspended animation in many of them.

Also, it's a much more sentimental culture to begin with...

[Taxloss]

7. The hotel pics do have an eerie "Mary Celeste" feeling.

The racecourse being colonised by creepers is AMAZING. Almost post-apocalyptic.

[UdoKier]

8. The race track was owned by the U.S. military.

Thus the English signs and lack of any artifacts...

There's another US installation with a big parabola antenna. Lotsa creeper there too.

Maybe it's "kudzu". I think it's native to Japan.