In Japanese the give-and-take 'Haikyo' is used to depict a ruin or abandoned building. It is equally good sometimes used to depict the past-time of urban exploration or 'urbex'. Urbex is the exploration of man-made structures, ordinarily abandoned ruins. Nippon seems peculiarly blessed amongst numerous abandoned buildings or haikyo, maybe equally a effect of its rapid industrialization (and the contribution of basis wars as well as natural disasters).
The Haikyo website is dedicated to finding as well as documenting Japan's abandoned buildings. The website is run yesteryear Jordy Meow, who has spent years exploring as well as writing close Japan's many abandoned as well as ruined locations. Haikyo includes a Google Map of 162 haikyo inwards Japan. These haikyo are all categorized yesteryear type (e.g. abandoned schools, subject parks, hospitals etc). You tin persuasion private interactive maps for each of these categories.
All of the locations listed on Haikyo include photographs as well as notes. The photos render a fascinating tape of Japan's crumbling yesteryear and, for those of us who don't alive inwards Japan, are in all likelihood the closest nosotros volition e'er larn to exploring these haikyo ...
... unless y'all catch Hashima Island - The Forgotten World
The abandoned Japanese isle of Hashima, inwards Nagasaki Prefecture, is in all likelihood Japan's most famous haikyo. Hashima Island - The Forgotten World is an amazing tour of Google's Street View imagery of the island. The tour includes lots of information into the historical background of the featured locations as well as the desolate landscape.
The site is a slap-up guide to the island, adding context as well as the back-story to Google's amazing imagery of Hashima. The Street Views inwards this tour convey been enhanced amongst around CSS3 filters to practise an fifty-fifty spookier atmosphere, which is intensified farther yesteryear the accompaniment of around suitably spectral background music as well as sound. The children's voices as well as school-bells that play when y'all stand upward inwards Hashima Primary School playground made the hairs on the dorsum of my cervix stand-up.
