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Sep 30 2008 13 Comments

Home-cum-haikyo

Love hotels and especially hospitals make for much better haikyo, but whereas businesses simply go bankrupt, somebody abandoning their abode is far more mysterious — and immeasurably more melancholy.

Like this rather pitiful looking place for example.

Japanese haikyo

As, while it may be way out by the woods, it presumably still cost a pretty penny, and more importantly was a home, possibly even a sweet one, for somebody. But now its views of the mountains are sadly masked by the overgrown garden,

Japanese haikyo

which has also wormed its way inside.

Japanese haikyo

And, after working one’s way through,

Japanese haikyo

the place reveals that its shoji screens,

Japanese haikyo

and a bit of the wall,

Japanese haikyo

are decidedly decrepit. As is the nearby shed.

Japanese haikyo

Which, while laughably still locked,

Japanese haikyo

boasts only a bicycle. The owner having presumably left by a different means of transport.

Japanese haikyo

Whatever that may have been.

Categorized: Haikyo, Photography

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  1. JB says

    9/30/2008 at 2:49 pm

    Still nicer than some of the places I’ve lived in.

    Cleaner too!!

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  2. chkn says

    9/30/2008 at 7:14 pm

    Wow, It look so spooky, I love this 🙂

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  3. ait_mejin says

    9/30/2008 at 8:27 pm

    What a mystic place…

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  4. Namazu says

    9/30/2008 at 11:25 pm

    I’d love to know where it is and whether the property is on the market. Courtesy of the in-laws, we have an utterly charmless plot in Gifu-ken I’d love to swap.

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  5. Lee says

    10/1/2008 at 12:45 am

    It was a while ago when I took the pics Namazu, but I have a feeling the house is by the side of Saiko, near Fuji-san. Which, if things aren’t going all that well, is only a short hop to Aokigahara, the infamous suicide forest.

    Not necessarily ideal after a bad day at work or a particularly melancholy Monday morning…

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  6. Bunny says

    10/1/2008 at 2:04 am

    Those are good shots!

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  7. ato says

    10/1/2008 at 7:52 am

    creepy man! I really like 302

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  8. MrSatyre says

    10/1/2008 at 11:41 am

    Beautiful photos! Thanks for sharing!

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  9. jolenesiah says

    10/6/2008 at 11:39 am

    ermmm spooky feeeling… look like the movie “Slit mouthed women” house

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  10. Jason says

    10/6/2008 at 12:50 pm

    Nice find. Did you randomly walk by this haikyo house or had you known about it?

    The latest haikyo I went on took me to a Russian Village theme park in Niigata Prefecture: http://jasoncollin.org/2008/09/26/niigata-russian-village-haikyo-urban-exploring/

    What camera did you take those shots with?

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  11. Lee says

    10/6/2008 at 5:50 pm

    That Russian village looks fantastic Jason. A trip there may well be in order.

    We were lucky enough to see the house by the road as we drove past, and went to investigate. There were no other houses nearby either, so there was no risk of being seen.

    I have a Nikon D40X. Upgrading to a DSLR last year was one of the best things I have ever done. Just wish I’d made the leap earlier that’s all.

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  12. Nick Ramsay says

    10/6/2008 at 10:14 pm

    Hey! You stalker! What are you taking pictures of my house for? 😉

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  13. Lee says

    10/6/2008 at 10:24 pm

    Sorry Nick, but a quick run round with the vacuum cleaner every now and again might stop people wandering in off the street!

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