A festival village? What the heck is a festival village? To be honest, even 3. It consisted of two buildings, a dome shaped museum and a big multi-purpose building, connected by a huge parking lot that included a helipad and had two massive entrance gates on different height levels, given that the whole complex was located on a slope — yep, that sounds like the megalomaniac bubble economy….
The museum was still split in two parts by massive shutters all over the building. Offices, exhibition rooms with both intact and shattered showcases and a couple of bathrooms. The main building across the parking lot was accessible on the ground floor and on the third floor — which turned out to be a great thing, because when I was about to leave, I realized that a car parked in front of the gate I entered… not really through… but rather by.
Luckily not a security guy, but some random dude, most likely trying to kill some time away from his family. Nevertheless it would have been a hassle to exit with the fella watching through his driving mirror. On the ground floor I found some hover disc, flying saucers if you want to call them that — probably a lot of fun in the s, especially with the large parking lot right in front of the building.
The top floor seemed to be the amusement area with a bar or two, seating areas and more exhibition space. There also were several boxes filled with high quality prints of the last museum exhibition — expensive pottery. Especially the darker areas of the museum were spooky as hell. Oh, and of course I would have loved to take a ride on one of those hover discs, but they were probably beyond repair anyway after all those years of abandonment.
Read Full Post ». I fell in love with this abandoned restaurant and onsen instantly when I first saw a photo of the building about two years ago. There is always a lot of construction going on in Japan.
