The Hotel Queen is another abandoned love hotel on the banks of Lake Tama. I first saw it the first time I went out there to shoot the Akasaka and the Red Blossom about 2 years ago. At the time it looked semi-abandoned, with a chain roping it off. I tentatively strode over the chain only to be blasted by a motion sensor alarm. I froze like a deer in the headlights, saw a nearby open door, shoes on the ground beside it, and decided not to push my luck any further. I cycled off, heading for the real meat.
Little dude models for us in the complex office.
This time around, on a cycling trip to Lake Tama with SY, it was obviously wholly abandoned. All its stuff had been hauled out and tossed out front of the gate. We found access down the side where one of the doors had been busted in. Of course we were looking for garish and wacky room decorations, but every one of the hut-rooms was still sealed off behind sturdy metal doors. One with an open window showed only a very banal and normal hotel room on the inside.
The most interesting spot was the complex`s office, where they had old-school vacuum tubes, for sending hi-tech discrete messages back and forth to the rooms. I suppose you`d send a note like- `more caviar` or something. Also we found a little dude on site to model for us.
Crummy-looking interior.
Vacuum tubes.
Excellent touch-tone phone.
The `chalets`.
Romantic.
I`d request these dancing (bowling?) shoes through the vacuum tube, like- `bring out my dancing shoes, baby, come on!`
Pretty drab, basically.
See my full collection of Japanese ruins in the haikyo galleries:
[album id=4 template=compact]Look in the other galleries for world ruins and fantasy ruins.