Comments on: Japan’s abandoned Russian Village theme park

By: ikumi

ikumi — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 07:35:06 +0000

It is a very good plans.
Korean schools in Niigata? That information is new to me.
I look forward to your report

By: MJG

MJG — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 07:16:39 +0000

Thanks ikumi! I’m going to head back up to Niigata sometime soon too. North Korean school, if I can find it.

By: ikumi

ikumi — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 06:49:10 +0000

Anyways, very nice photos and Report !
I’ll go to the Russian village in snow time

By: MJG

MJG — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 05:15:19 +0000

Hi JS- thanks for sharing your experience, and sure I’d like to see what photos you took- in particular the state of the burned rooms and any other changes since I was last there (the chairs!). If you’d have it I’d post them up here, maybe in the comments or perhaps in a separate post- of course all linked to wherever you wanted.
The toy mammoth has been moved indoors I think, not entirely sure where but I saw it in a recent set, perhaps Lee of Tokyo Times.
Oh, and that trashed executive suite was trashed when we were there too. Was a bed-leg still sticking out of the wall? It was when we went by. Very curious.

By: JS

JS — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 03:41:08 +0000

I visited this haikyo with some friends about a month or so ago, and indeed the hotel had been well charred, leaving all the rooms looking like something right out of a horror film. Needless to say, this led us to abandon our plans to follow your lead and stay in a hotel room. Only one of the big suites remains “intact,” which is to say torn apart but untouched by fire. The mannequins were MIA, as were most of the tables in that room with the model houses seen in your video above. The toy mammoth was either somewhere we didn’t look, or someone rode it off into the Niigata sunset. I do believe I saw the fruits of your chair-stacking labor, though now it just looks more like a tangled heap of chairs out of some survival horror game, deliberately placed to give you the heebie-jeebies. The church, while strewn with debris, is still standing. I didn’t notice the harp case or the accordion, but there was a pair of giant work pants slung over a moved pew, as though someone were drying them. All quite spooky stuff in the waning hours of a cloudy day.

You have my e-mail if you want some new pictures, though you’ll have to forgive my point-and-shoot camera and its inability to capture low-light spookiness…I had to use the flash in most instances just so I could bring home some shots with something in them, especially once the sun set behind the clouds.

By: Bailey

Bailey — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 17:16:35 +0000

Hello. I love looking at this post and the photos of this theme park and am completely awed by it. I was wondering, is the park still around to this day, and if so, do you know its address? Thanks so much!

By: ik

ik — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 11:14:56 +0000

Hi Tom,

How can I get in touch with you, I’d love to ask you a few questions about the website&TV commercial.

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 09:51:35 +0000

No, Suntopia World has been there way before Russian Village was open. It was used to be called Yasuda Island, an amusement park.

By: DM

DM — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 12:34:11 +0000

I went there a few days ago, and it’s been re-opened as “Suntopia World” :

http://www.suntopi.com/

By: Tom Tanaka

Tom Tanaka — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 02:58:20 +0000

Privet! I did design their first website as well as a TV commercial. It’s all got to do with the corporate corruption of the local bank who was running the place. They just ran out of business. I have been away from Niigata for about 10 years and now I’m back here.