THIS is what inside Japan’s largest abandoned resort looks like – fit with a thousand Buddha statues and overgrown hot springs.
The eerie pictures capture the remnants of what used to be a five-star, 1000-room hotel in the country’s northern region of Ishikawa.
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Katsuotsu / TripAdvisor1,000 gold Buddha statues sitting uniformly in what is known as Raken Hall[/caption]
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Also known as Kaga No Sato – or the Hachijo Royal – the resort opened in 1987 and was a religious-themed amusement park before it was torn down in 2005.
Drawing in thousands of tourists and locals every year, the multi-million pound resort was once a bustling attraction with gilded temple halls and a golden pagoda.
Fascinating pictures shows one of the hotel’s lobbies strewn with tattered wooden furniture, a keyboard – and even a rusting Cadillac.
The large empty rooms are covered with broken glass windows, worn curtains and carpets.
Meanwhile, dilapidated buildings are punctuated with old cars and overgrown plants as the resort lies in ruins.
But towering over the debris remains a gargantuan gold Buddha statue, standing as a reminder of the long-lost amusement park.
Some of the hotel’s other spaces looking oddly well preserved.
Most astonishingly though, are the 1000 shining Buddha statues, sitting uniformly in what is known as Raken Hall.
Blown away, Josh said: “I’ve never seen anything like this. This is a surreal place. The decay of the ceiling… all of the statues in a row… This is something in a dream.”
Other rooms appear hauntingly untouched with wooden hangers still dangling in wardrobes and bed sheets folded neatly on beds.
Meanwhile, fridges stand seemingly intact in what would have been the hotel’s kitchen with calendars chillingly pinned to walls.
But more than four decades since the park was demolished, shrubs and greenery are the main attraction – blanketing stretches of concrete ground and snaking up and around Japanese hot springs.
It comes just weeks after Luke Bradburn, another content creator, shared an eerie video of abandoned hotela in Japan‘s Kinugawa Onsen.
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The city has stood untouched in Japan for more than 30 years.
Luke Bradburn stumbled upon the area while exploring the Fukushima exclusion zone in early 2024.
Famed for its natural hot springs, this area would once have been buzzing with tourists and holidaymakers.
Bradburn spent six hours exploring Kinugawa Onsen, making his way through a handful of around 20 buildings.
The 28-year-old from Bury said: “It was like walking into a ghost town.
“There were abandoned cars on the streets and while you could drive through the area, every building around you was just left to rot.
“When we stepped inside, the contrast was mad.
“From the outside, it’s all overgrown and decaying, but inside some of the rooms were pristine – like no one had touched them in decades.”
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