GUEST HAIKYO – Sun Park Hotel
December 10, 2010 · Featured Story, Guest Haikyo, Haikyo, Yamanashi · 1 Comment 

Recently I was chatting to a few other haikyoists about re-featuring some of their explores on this site. The first to agree with it was Brian McDuckston, of Japan Bash and Ramen Adventures. On Japan Bash Brian explores Japan on…

The dead boar of Yamanaka lake

The Yamanakako Spa Resort Hotel in Yamanashi prefecture very nearly didn’t make the cut to appear on this site, as I came close to just walking on by. It was only an hour or so from dusk, and I’d already…

Mt. Fuji’s mysterious underground vault
April 24, 2009 · Haikyo, Vaults, Yamanashi · 31 Comments 

The underground vault haikyo in the shadow of Mt. Fuji is one of the strangest abandoned structures I’ve yet explored. A double-doored double-walled walk-in safe with triple combination locks buried in a man-made mound in an unpopulated and obscure part…

Ruins of Gulliver’s Kingdom, Japan
April 22, 2009 · Haikyo, Theme Parks, Yamanashi · 12 Comments 

Gulliver once rested in the shadow of Mt.Fuji, bound and nailed to the ground by the hair. His giant body was the main attraction of the now defunct and dismembered Gulliver’s Kingdom Theme Park in the shadow of Mt. Fuji,…

The hotel on Yamanaka lake they never finished
April 17, 2009 · Haikyo, Hotels / Resorts, Yamanashi · 7 Comments 

The Yamanakako Resort Hotel at the foot of Mt. Fuji is another Bubble-era dead-end, a half-built extravagance that freezes in time the moment the crash occurred. Its rooms lie fallow and bare, uncarpeted and unpainted, with no furnishings but for…

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