Man discovers 'ghost town' full of empty, eerie hotels: 'Like a time capsule'

Fox News ^ | July 26, 2025 | Reem Amro

[JZelle]

He better hope there isn’t a grudge.

[tumblindice]

Spirited Away

[curious7]

Yubaba was probably watching him the whole time.

[tumblindice]

We have haunted bath houses. Haunted by AIDs-raddled hoemoes.

>Harsh dude!

[SunkenCiv]

[doorgunner69]

“The crime rate is so low that abandoned buildings don’t get looted or destroyed “

We’re not in Detroit anymore........

[tumblindice]

Like the Eskimos and their dozens of words for different types of snow, Japanese cartoonists can depict something as simple as water in as many different ways.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DW5szC4XgR1s%26pp%3D0gcJCfwAo7VqN5tD&ved=2ahUKEwjPj4-Jp9yOAxXSDHkGHUtBIsoQ9KsOegQIFBAB&usg=AOvVaw0BAOrxWO-dljkHUB4rrwv0

[31R1O]

Miyazaki’s Spirited Away used one of these for the story setting.

[Bob434]

Chernyobal is similar. Everyone dropped everything and ran for the hills leaving behind all their possessions practically. Josh gates did a walk through there looking for ghosts, and it was eerie seeing g the classrooms with everything left and other rooms with normal every. Day items.

[henbane]

Luke Bradburn, pictured above, stumbled on the forgotten tourist destination of Kinugawa Onsen during a trip to Japan in early 2024. (Luke Bradburn / SWNS)

[ncalburt]

This is called Breaking and entry .
Are the Japanese tracking this idiot down .
Now the area has to increase security thanks to this felony .

[small farm girl]

My first thought!”

[GingisK]

The best of the Chernyobal walk-throughs was done by “Kid of Speed”, a young Ukrainian woman.

[GingisK]

This is called Breaking and entry

Mellow out, Francis. Nobody cares ... it has been abandoned.

[Retain Mike]

So how come he gets to go and no one else? If there is no radiation hazard, why hasn’t it been reoccupied?

[catnipman]

are they sure those buildings aren’t in the Catskills?

[Bob434]

Tha KS I’ll check it out- I assume it’s o. Youtube?

[GingisK]

If there is no radiation hazard, why hasn’t it been reoccupied?

Japan's population is declining rather rapidly. They don't need the housing, and it would be really expensive to restore those buildings up to code. They will be razed for new construction when the time comes.

[GingisK]

Found it