Bear Grylls might eat the brain up. In its heyday it was the biggest mine for sulfur in the Eastern world. This is the water park "Sports World".Up early in the morning and departure for the Ibaraki prefecture. xThere is a coal mining ghost town near Iwaki in Fukushima. A very short article, but on time for once ;)It is a very sunny winter morning. Ghost Town of Japan | รอบโลก By กรุณา บัวคำศรี 1/2 - YouTube The city was known as the “paradise above the clouds” for its comparatively luxurious apartment blocks and near-constant ebb and flow of mist. There is a small abandoned amusement park in Kaga, north of Fukui, behind the enormous gold Kannon statue visible everywhere from the highways. The sun is high, not a cloud in the sky. There were two schools, a clinic, a post office and even a cinema. If you long to be Indiana Jones, this is where you need to go.

I can’t quite remember where it is, but there is a coal mining museum in the city where you could ask for directions.Excellent article! Next to the statue is a hall full of 1000 plastic gold Bodhisattva statues laid out like the real wooden ones in Kyoto in Sanjusangendo. Kind of an oddity of Japan? That brain in the jar, though…. Very tacky place, but great for photographs! It’s easily accessible from Tokyo by car for a one-day trip and a worthwhile experience. It is the perfect place to shoot a rock music video. CULTURE; SOCIETY; Sep 22, 2015 . All around the buildings stand with their roofs and walls caved in, reeds shot through floorboards and decking, swingsets and see-saws over-awed by brambles and flurries of fallen leaves.The derelict Taro mine lies at a generational crossing point- once a place where raw sulfides were dug from the earth, now it functions as a cosmic ray laboratory for a nearby University, capturing electrons from outer space in several large heavily wired pools. Since I went to many more, you can see more of them here: This infamous doctor’s office also contains human organs, and among them, the horrendous Nichitsu Brain! It was once a thriving company town with hundreds of families, the women staying at home in their rickety timber apartments, the children at the large wooden high school, and the men down in the mines digging for tin.But that was over 20 years ago- since then the town has been relentlessly pounded by avalanches and ravaged by decay. It seems that a few of the buildings were used again in the ’90s by young men – in the rooms of the most modern ones we found karaoke machines, That was my friend Joan by the way, believe it or not but she used to be my co-worker.The Nichitsu Clinic is the first abandoned hospital I went to. Yum!My favorite was Taro with collection pools for Cosmic Rays. Soon, the place was abandoned.Ashiodozan Mining Town in the mountains of Tochigi Prefecture is infamous in Japanese history as a site of extreme environmental damage- so much so the town was mostly abandoned 40 years ago, the mines and factory shut down, and new standards in environmental care called for at the highest national levels.It had been a copper mining and processing town for over 400 years, at its peak supplying over a third of Japan’s entire copper supply, in the process though poisoning the nearby mountains with sulfurous acid gas from the plant’s smelters.Now it’s a creaking conglomeration of fading facilities- a power station, the factory, numerous barricaded mines, a train station, a temple, a school, and a small town of tumble-down wooden apartments, haunted only by a few aged holdovers with nowhere else to go.Mining of gold and copper at the legendary Osarizawa mine began around 1300 years ago, with the last of the smelting facilities closing down in 1978. Weren’t those those the ones that made the Fantastic Four?

It’s easily accessible from Tokyo by car for a one-day trip and a worthwhile experience.
The abandoned tin-mining village, about 50 km from Chichibu in Saitama, can also be reached from Kofu in Yamanashi. In the final one he managed to slit open the beast’s belly, from which poured gold, copper and lead.Matsuo mine in the north of Japan opened in 1914 and closed in 1969. The abandoned tin-mining village, about 50 km from Chichibu in Saitama, can also be reached from Kofu in Yamanashi. Most ghost towns in Japan are built around mines, like abandoned gold rush towns in the American West. Appalled by the gigantic Christmas tree, I instantly dropped into the Disney dreamworld.In Yokohama, near Tokyo, is one of the most famous ruins of Japan: the Negishi Grandstand. When the mine seams gave out the jobs went away and the people left.

I’ve visited Nichitsu Ghost Town (ニッチツ鉱山村) several times, the first time was in 2010, and the last was in 2017.