• Skip to main content
  • Skip to footer

Tokyo Times

Photographs from a small group of islands

  • Photowalks
  • Portfolio
  • About/Contact
  • Support
  • Follow
    • Facebook
    • Twitter
    • Instagram
    • RSS

Sep 03 2009 9 Comments

Well and truly abandoned wedding hall (part 1)

Even though it’s now forever 6 o’clock and there’s not a ceremony in sight, the Heiankaku wedding hall still looks surprisingly bright and breezy from the outside. Or at least it does considering that documents left dotted about suggest that it could have been abandoned as long as ten years ago.

abandoned wedding hall

Inside, however, it’s a very different story, with a sense of sadness pervading the property’s still partially furnished function rooms and faded fittings. A place where love, above all else, was once lauded, but even that has long since left the building.

abandoned wedding hall

As have the happy pairs in possession of it, who, on their big day, posed patiently next to preposterously sized plastic wedding cakes.

abandoned wedding hall

Props that now look far less preposterous,

abandoned wedding hall

but at the same time appear far more pathetic.

abandoned wedding hall

A lot like the rest of the complex really. As where four weddings could feasibly have been dealt with on the same day, quite possibly at the same time, there is now nothing but decay. Meaning no more laughter filled (or simply long) speeches.

abandoned wedding hall

No grand entrances through equally grand entrances either.

abandoned wedding hall

And definitely no more lavish banquets fit for a lord and all his legions.

abandoned wedding hall

Just ragged reminders of such reveries.

abandoned wedding hall

Next week, in part 2, I’ll look at where the brides went to be made even more beautiful, along with the tell-tale signs of nature beginning to take back the building.

In the meantime, however, there’s an abandoned mining town, mountain retreat, water park complex, or even love hotel to have a look at if you’d like to.

Categorized: Haikyo

Reader Interactions

Comments

  1. Gail40 says

    9/3/2009 at 5:58 pm

    Wow, that’s really really sad………

    Reply
  2. fritz says

    9/3/2009 at 11:36 pm

    wonderful pictures

    Reply
  3. S in Shanghai says

    9/4/2009 at 2:43 am

    I cant wait for that……..

    /S

    Reply
  4. Yoli says

    9/4/2009 at 4:56 am

    You are a poet.

    Reply
  5. MrSatyre says

    9/4/2009 at 7:50 am

    Always great to see your “abandoned” pictorials! 😀

    Reply
  6. 6pack says

    9/4/2009 at 3:40 pm

    Already following through google reader. Thanks for the wonderful photos. Waiting to see next week’s pics.

    Reply
  7. Lee says

    9/4/2009 at 5:24 pm

    Thanks for all the positive comments. Just wish I could have more regular haikyo posts, but I’ve pretty much exhausted all the (known) haikyo round and about Tokyo…

    Reply
  8. Man says

    9/4/2009 at 10:42 pm

    Haha, fake wedding cakes… And I wonder why we never got to eat those cakes.

    Reply
  9. Josie says

    9/6/2009 at 8:09 am

    Amazing photo spread.

    Reply

Leave a Reply to Josie Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Footer

Copyright © 2022 · Tokyo Times