Comments on: Memories of Nichitsu 4. The Dr.’s brain in a jar

By: Xombe

Xombe — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 00:00:50 +0000

I love all of your photos <3
Old and abandoned places are a wonderful site to behold.
I'm sorry you didn't get to capture everything you came for.

By: MJG

MJG — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 05:21:51 +0000

Joel- I guess this just doesn`t concern me that much. As a hiker I don`t get upset by the little mounds of rocks people leave at the top of mountains. That`s all I see my past interactions as.

That said, I don`t really move stuff around now. I shoot it straight, or I`ll bring in a model or something to provide a subject.

By: Joel

Joel — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 03:56:08 +0000

Shame about the brain I wonder who took it. I agree with Nik.
If you have to move things then maybe move them back yourself so it isn’t ruined for the next person. I’d rather walk into a room looking like it’s been like that for decades without being disturbed rather that see things in weird places that make it just look vandalised.

By: Peaceful Haikyo Ruin of a Motor Lodge | Michael John Grist

Peaceful Haikyo Ruin of a Motor Lodge | Michael John Grist — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 07:50:45 +0000

[...] for some time now, ever since about a year ago we headed back into Gunma and Nagano to revisit the Nichitsu Mining Town and see the huge Shin Shu Kanko hotel. On that trip though we didn’t have enough time, so it [...]

By: David Meyer

David Meyer — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 14:42:59 +0000

That’s good news then, especially if you’ve got the chance to earn a little money from your passions. Good luck.

By: MJG

MJG — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 10:13:11 +0000

David- All is fine, thanks for the concern, just been giving my attention to other projects- a few haikyo articles that will appear in magazines, as well as long form fiction, both of which I’ll introduce more properly to the site some time soon.

In the meantime things will continue with at least a haikyo a week for he foreseeable future, if not more when I get round to it.

By: David Meyer

David Meyer — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 02:10:53 +0000

I’m glad the recent comments brought this article to my attention. It looks like you posted this literally days before I discovered this sight (hard to believe it was less than a year ago). Interesting article and photos, and a fascinating place.

You put a lot of work into renovating this blog, but have become very quiet over the last few weeks. Is everything all right? Some sudden life change keeping you away?

By: MJG

MJG — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 00:52:25 +0000

Nik- That is a shame, though not as bad as I’d heard about Nichitsu, which is that the whole place had been demolished.

As to the charge of denying the person the chance to see the place as it was, sure, fair enough. Though I don’t think taking a major feature- something that is irreversible- really compares with something totally reversible like stacking chairs. If someone wanted to restore the location to the original as I found it, it would be the work of only a few moments.

Added to which, the places I may have interacted at (something which I can’t be bothered to do now), generally have little by way of subject, so moving something into an interesting position is only to add a subject. An empty hall with no decay and nothing of note benefits from tower-stacked chairs, I’d say. And again, easily reversible.

By: Nik M

Nik M — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 14:33:08 +0000

Bad news: the brain has gone. We went up on Saturday morning, arrived about 9am and got three hours in before hunger, imminent rain and the need for a flushing toilet took us away. Someone has either hidden it very carefully, or – macabre thought! – taken it home.

I’m curious about your fury at the missing light. Isn’t that, after all, no more than a somewhat grander-scale ‘interaction’ of the kind you perform and document? Just as that person denied you your chance to see and feel the place as it was, doesn’t hanging sheets of paper, or stacking chairs, or moving things from room to room or building to building deny the same to subsequent visitors?

http://tr.im/nichitsu for photos

By: MJG

MJG — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 08:27:49 +0000

Hey Basti- As you’ll have read, we had trouble finding it too. It’s kind of in the middle. If the first sets of dorms are at the bottom of the town, and the yellow town hall is at the top, then the Dr.’s office is between them. Going back down from the town hall, it’s on the right, across a rusted bridge. From the outside it looks like nothing special, though it’s kind of octagonal. Good luck!

Thanks for photo link, enjoyed looking at your shots.