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so this abandoned and bankrupt hotel is
actually on a japanese volcano we're in
the south of japan right now and this
volcano sakurajima still has about 2 000
residents people who live on it but the
tourist boom here ended well over a
decade ago and unfortunately this hotel
was one of the sad victims of the end of
that boom
i found this place just about a year ago
when i lived on this volcano for a week
to make a documentary about the people
who choose to live
on an active volcano
but the last time that i was here i was
kind of pressed for time i didn't have a
chance to fully explore this place so
i've come back to
to do that i will link that one by the
way because the perspective of people
who choose to live on an active volcano
is really something else and i could be
imagining this but i'm feeling like
there's
far more glass and debris on the ground
than there was the last time i was here
so i'm going to be proceeding with
extreme caution this is barely even the
entrance way to the hotel by the way it
goes on for some time
let's let's go explore
one of the big selling points to this
place is obviously the gorgeous ocean
view on this side but also the view of
the sakurajima volcano from the other
side of the hotel
also this place is really well known for
its open air bath which i believe is
down by the ocean somewhere i tried to
get to it last time and wasn't able to
we'll take a peek but honestly hopes
aren't particularly high
i can look in here with just this giant
pile of broken dishes and cups
oh wow they just threw it all out
literally a small mountain of them
there's like seashells and everything in
here i'm pretty sure that's a fake
seashell don't think it's real and and
there's a locker
and
the lockers
are still locked
what purpose would that serve
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everything's just stripped for useful or
valuable parts and then left in giant
piles more often than not because they
simply can't afford to actually take
down the building or destroy it this
particular hotel
went bankrupt in 2012 that's only again
10 years ago and while there is still a
ton of scrap metal that could probably
be collected sold melted down it's
likely just not worth the cost or they
can't get approval to come in here and
grab it all
you never really know what it is the
cost benefit thing would make the most
sense but at the same time japan is a
very bureaucratic country so just
getting approval to come in and strip
metal from an abandoned building could
be a bureaucratic nightmare
also i'm pretty sure that that would be
the entrance way
to the outdoor bath that's probably the
pathway to it down there
i just don't think it's accessible let's
head over that way there's seriously way
more broken glass than last time
okay so
we can go this way
or down this
way
haven't been down here but let's start
by checking out the entrance to the
bathroom look at this
just that chair right there in the
middle
i'm pretty sure
that it's in this way
i don't even know if i trust this floor
yeah we're not getting down there
yeah that's seriously dead that just
drops right off let's head back to that
stairway
okay yeah that's it's not creepy at all
so it seems like the baths are down here
but look at this this place had dolphin
beach
and a beach walk like the kagushima bay
or kinko bay actually has a family of
dolphins that lives in there that you
can see from the fairies every now and
then but it must have been really
awesome to just take a beach walk with
dolphins this must have been a really
incredible
hotel
once upon a time there was a nice image
here
of what it used to look like but the
entire thing has just been turned into a
graffiti zone in fact you can see right
here
where everyone's left their stuff
i also feel that likely this is going to
be the closest we're going to get to the
outdoor
bath area there
i don't know how much i would trust that
platform anyway
it's been like that for 10 years it has
just been taken back by nature
but this bath area as a whole was
massive this is
incredibly spacious look at this
it's a hole that's not a mirror is it no
that's a whole other
that's definitely a pool
neither the biggest most luxurious bath
you'll ever get into
this genuinely seems like it would be a
really cool place to stay crib in the
background is freaking me out just a
little bit and i'm watching for giant
spiders because kyushu has a ton of
huntsmen and they are weirdly
everywhere let's go loop around and
check out the pool by the way and
slightly aggressive too i was having
drinks with a friend the other night and
a hunt's been rocked up and tried to
steal my drink and there's all these
ropes all over the place that i keep
thinking are spiders it's not like
they're a dangerous spider it's just i
prefer not to have one all over my shoes
we could probably jump down there
i'm not entirely sure quite what it is
or if you even share this sentiment with
me but there's just something really
cool and weirdly fun about hanging out
in an abandoned swimming pool also a
slight lack of originality in the
graffiti
that one's kind of cool and again it
just blows my mind just how much
scrap metal they've just left behind
there are countless piles like this all
throughout the hotel
now
how am i gonna get back up we got two
options
we have the mario style blocks over here
but i feel like this would be the safer
option
all of this down here is broken glass so
i need to be extra careful because i
haven't sent my hiking boots from tokyo
yet in case you missed it i i live here
now not on the volcano but in in kyushu
there's still
a ton of the hotel
that we haven't seen yet
so
let's
continue our search
wow it was way up
so it seems like the upper floors
have really
really been emptied out there's
even some plants growing here
i wonder if this door
even opens
oh it does
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let's check out
up here
got the volcano
in the background over there
i feel like this entire spot
is likely just gonna be
guest rooms yeah
oh wow
they did have nice views
seems like the majority of the rooms
are pretty much
all the same size
and layout
but i feel like there's still more to
explore
in that building over there
one of the last times i came here it was
pouring like an absolute
downpour all the open windows and
whatnot ended up looking like waterfalls
with water just rushing in
i'm pretty sure
this
leads us up to the roof up here and the
roof has terrible drainage so
yeah this is
pretty much what i expected
so then how
do we get to the other side
of the hotel
maybe these stairs maybe this door what
does this mystery door lead to oh wow
okay
that is just
close the blast doors close the blast
doors
bath and shower space here
what ah that's what the noise is
i thought it was the sound of the steel
like settling and i was like okay if
this place is settling i'm getting out
of here right now but the roof
over this is actually leaking
that one actually got my heart going for
just a second
every step that i'm taking i'm making
sure that i'm on stable ground i'm
listening for shifts and settling and
everything like that the building should
be secure but it doesn't mean that you
don't need to be careful
so
we have a mystery spiral staircase here
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where is this gonna take us
big surprise
right up onto the roof
nice view from up here though look at
this
genuinely impressed with how big this
place is and how much there is to
explore like this place is huge and
beautiful it's really unfortunate that
it went out of business but it's
definitely not the only one sakurajima
is filled with abandoned buildings and
properties when i did my documentary
last year about what it's like to live
on an active volcano i almost did an
entire angle about just how many
abandoned properties there are because
they are
everywhere i am really
really glad that i came back
and did this one though
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