Michael John Grist

Maps

Keishin Hospital Haikyo, Kanagawa

Jun 17th, 2008 • Featured Article, Maps, Photos, Ruins Gallery

The gutted shell of the abandoned Keishin Hospital stands blank and ghostly on the rural Kanagawa sky-line. It once housed state-of-the-art radiology and cancer departments, now the only pieces of equipment remaining are the chairs bolted to the floor in the dentist’s office. Up close its walls are a vibrant cacophony of ever-changing grafitti, its forecourt a wash of shattered glass and empty spray-paint cans, its encircling car park overgrown with a thick smog of twisted brown underbrush. All record of its previous life has been erased by decades of vandalism, theft, and neglect.

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Negishi Grandstand Haikyo, Yokohama

Jun 9th, 2008 • Maps, Photos, Ruins Gallery, Video

The Negishi Racecourse Grandstand in Yokohama looms like an ancient 3-headed Titan over the Negishi Plateau. It once drew crowds of thousands to cheer the racing horses from its elaborate bleachers, to wander its long hallways and admire its extravagant architecture, but that was over 80 years ago, before it was surrendered to the US military after World War Two. Now its racecourse is a floodlit naval base, its bleachers are fenced off and overgrown with ivy, its innards rest silent and dark but for the steady drip of rain-water leaking through its rotting concrete skin.

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Japan Cycling

Jan 27th, 2008 • Maps

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Japan Sight-seeing

Jan 27th, 2008 • Maps

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Japan in Ruins

Jan 27th, 2008 • Maps

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