In Japanese the give-and-take 'Haikyo' is used to depict a ruin or abandoned building. It is likewise sometimes used to depict the past-time of urban exploration or 'urbex'. Urbex is the exploration of man-made structures, normally abandoned ruins. Nihon seems peculiarly blessed amongst numerous abandoned buildings or haikyo, perchance equally a consequence of its rapid industrialization (and the contribution of earth wars together with natural disasters).
The Haikyo website is dedicated to finding together with documenting Japan's abandoned buildings. The website is run yesteryear Jordy Meow, who has spent years exploring together with writing nearly Japan's many abandoned together with ruined locations. Haikyo includes a Google Map of 162 haikyo inwards Japan. These haikyo are all categorized yesteryear type (e.g. abandoned schools, subject parks, hospitals etc). You tin thought private interactive maps for each of these categories.
All of the locations listed on Haikyo include photographs together with notes. The photos render a fascinating tape of Japan's crumbling yesteryear and, for those of us who don't alive inwards Japan, are in all likelihood the closest nosotros volition e'er teach to exploring these haikyo ...
... unless y'all take in Hashima Island - The Forgotten World
The abandoned Japanese isle of Hashima, inwards Nagasaki Prefecture, is in all likelihood Japan's most famous haikyo. Hashima Island - The Forgotten World is an amazing tour of Google's Street View imagery of the island. The tour includes lots of information into the historical background of the featured locations together with the desolate landscape.
The site is a keen guide to the island, adding context together with the back-story to Google's amazing imagery of Hashima. The Street Views inwards this tour accept been enhanced amongst about CSS3 filters to exercise an fifty-fifty spookier atmosphere, which is intensified farther yesteryear the accompaniment of about suitably spectral background music together with sound. The children's voices together with school-bells that play when y'all stand upward inwards Hashima Primary School playground made the hairs on the dorsum of my cervix stand-up.
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