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Posted on 07/26/2025 9:14:40 PM PDT by george76
Abandoned Japanese resort hotels have stood nearly untouched for over three decades
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a hauntingly preserved resort town in Japan, where towering hotels sit crumbling along a riverside cliff. It's been untouched for over three decades,
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Luke Bradburn, 28, stumbled upon the forgotten tourist destination of Kinugawa Onsen during a trip to Japan in early 2024.
While his original goal was to document the Fukushima exclusion zone, Bradburn ventured beyond the area and found a "ghost town."
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Kinugawa Onsen was once a bustling resort town renowned for its natural hot springs. It began to decline in the early 1990s during Japan’s economic downturn.
As tourism dried up, many hotels shuttered.
But due to the country’s strict property laws, the buildings were never demolished. Many remain in legal limbo after owners either died without heirs or disappeared altogether
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The crime rate is so low that abandoned buildings don’t get looted or destroyed
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they need the owner’s permission to demolish, and if the owner died, they legally can’t for 30 years."
What remains today appears to be an eerie scene, with an entire street of massive, multi-story hotels slowly rotting away.
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"From the outside, it’s all overgrown and decaying," he said. "But inside, some of the rooms were pristine - like no one had touched them in decades."
"Some of the rooms were pristine."
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much of the area was extremely dangerous to navigate.
"There were floors missing, staircases hanging down, parts where you had to backtrack because everything had collapsed
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You get a sense of what life must’ve been like here at its peak - and then it just stopped," he said.
"It’s eerie, sad and fascinating all at once."
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
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Interesting... The deer in the lobby is strange...also the arcade machines...
They can put their illegal aliens in those buildings. Except they don’t allow illegals in their country...
Bands won’t play no more (Too much fighting on the dance floor)
Thanks, looking at it now
The man that hired me in my present company had gone there for a tour and commented on how eerie everything was as it was mostly left in place. Now there’s wildlife and people go in to loot.
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