Urbex - The Fine Art Of Urban Exploration
In Japanese the discussion 'Haikyo' is used to depict a ruin or abandoned building. It is too sometimes used to depict the past-time of urban exploration or 'urbex'. Urbex is the exploration of man-made structures, commonly abandoned ruins. Nippon seems especially blessed amongst numerous abandoned buildings or haikyo, perchance equally a consequence of its rapid industrialization (and the contribution of footing 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 past times Jordy Meow, who has spent years exploring as well as writing virtually Japan's many abandoned as well as ruined locations. Haikyo includes a Google Map of 162 haikyo inwards Japan. These haikyo are all categorized past times type (e.g. abandoned schools, subject parks, hospitals etc). You tin dismiss 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 past times and, for those of us who don't alive inwards Japan, are belike the closest nosotros volition e'er larn to exploring these haikyo ...
... unless you lot catch Hashima Island - The Forgotten World
The abandoned Japanese isle of Hashima, inwards Nagasaki Prefecture, is belike 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 bully conduct to the island, adding context as well as the back-story to Google's amazing imagery of Hashima. The Street Views inwards this tour accept been enhanced amongst approximately CSS3 filters to exercise an fifty-fifty spookier atmosphere, which is intensified farther past times the accompaniment of approximately suitably spectral background music as well as sound. The children's voices as well as school-bells that play when you lot stand upward inwards Hashima Primary School playground made the hairs on the dorsum of my cervix stand-up.