Miyazaki Clinic | Haikyo: Abandoned Japan

A lovely old wooden country clinic frozen in a gentler time, a shaped pine still standing guard while the garden runs wild.

Okunoshima looks like paradise, hundreds of tame rabbits greeting every visitor.

An abandoned amusement park in the hills of Sapporo, its colorful Ferris wheel standing frozen in the winter snow.

An abandoned driving range on Sado Island, its safety nets collapsed in waves over what is slowly turning back into a meadow.

The Old Yaotsu Power Plant was the first full-scale hydroelectric plant on the Kiso River, built in 1911 and preserved today as a museum.

A moss-covered Toyota Land Cruiser sits wedged in a forgotten sunken road, and nobody can say how it got there.

A stripped roadside pachinko parlor where a giant daruma still stares down the empty aisles.

A small country temple collapsed onto itself, its bronze bell still hanging over the wreckage and the spring flowers.

A letterbox shaped like the original Game Boy stands guard on a lonely country road, still waiting for mail.

A bubble-era resort hotel built around a gallery of vintage Cadillacs, abandoned since the mid-90s.

A brick hydroelectric plant from 1917, decommissioned in 1944 and slowly dissolving into a cedar forest.

A giant unfinished resort mansion sitting in heavy silence near Mount Fuji, its hundred identical rooms turning the place into a concrete maze.

Nichitsu is one of the largest abandoned villages in Japan, a whole mining town of apartments, a school and a hospital left to the forest.

A rusted Jeep Wagoneer lies on the bare volcanic slopes of Mount Fuji, and nobody knows how it got there.

For many years, a red car from the 1970s sat on a cliff in Iwafune, Tochigi Prefecture.

A hauntingly beautiful abandoned bra factory filled with old machinery, advertisements and countless bras hanging from rafters; a melancholic reminder of time's passage.

This abandoned Noh Theater, built in the 1980s, was once a lavish cultural venue nestled in a scenic Japanese region.

Furufuru Land was once a bustling water park with long water slides and a large circular pool.

This abandoned school, built in 1874, served as a functioning school for over 70 years.

An eerie seaside structure shaped like a skull, once a shipyard with rails leading to the sea, now abandoned and mysterious.

Loop Bridge is an iconic abandoned loop bridge in the Izu Peninsula.

An abandoned military radio station with imposing towers that once communicated with Japan’s fleet—an eerie, photogenic relic of secret operations.

A hidden tunnel formed by seven octagonal rings along a leafy path, built in 1915 and abandoned in 1964.

Doctor's Shack is a quiet and old wooden clinic hidden behind a shrine near Nagoya.

This enchanting power plant, hidden deep in the forest, was once one of many small hydro plants in the area.

Zenko-ji Temple is a long-abandoned temple in Ibaraki Prefecture hidden away with a unique structure.

Exploring Gluck Kingdom, an abandoned theme park with eerie surroundings, caution signs, and hidden dangers like wild bears and active police, making for an adventurous urbex trip.

An unusual facility in Bibai that comes alive in winter; explore its frozen labs and quirky architecture.

After having being run by the Tamura family for a century, this ironworks was abandoned at the end of the '90s.

The Hachijo Royal Resort is the biggest and most famous abandoned hotel in Japan.

The Futuro House is a prefabricated house designed by Matti Suuronen.

Another abandoned hotel on Hachijojima.

This abandoned two-story obstetrics and gynecology clinic from the 1970s–80s feels frozen in time.

We had some fun, my friend Mana and I, trying to get into that swimming pool.

An old prison on Sado Island, active until 1972 and now accessible to visitors.

A once-massive sky-blue clinic now crumbles under bamboo's siege; only the doctor and operating rooms remain intact.

An extraordinary abandoned mine near Kasuga village with rusted structures and endless tunnels, inviting explorers into its underground maze.

This must have been a very relaxing sento.

Build in 1909, this power plant was the most powerful one in the country, at that time.

I found this clinic by myself, by walking around in a little onsen town.

An abandoned love hotel that remains intact yet too grand and costly to succeed; it sits unused on the outskirts of town.

A remote Tokyo hair salon, abandoned since the 1990s, still stands quietly where few people pass.

The buildings of the Konan School (湖南小学校後山分校) are truly beautiful.

A daunting abandoned onsen between Nara and Mie; asbestos-filled ruins make visits unsafe, with eerie atmosphere lingering.

I didn't expect to find any haikyo when I was driving in the area; I was just looking for a nice spot to admire the sunset.

Setouchi Clinic (瀬戸内の廃医院) is a very quiet abandoned clinic located in Setouchi.

The Niimi Clinic was an abandoned clinic in the Japanese countryside.

Ob-Gyn (産婦人科の廃墟) is an abandoned obstetrics and gynecology hospital located in the nice countryside of Japan.

This abandoned clinic, on the brink of collapse, has seen many whalers coming here to get either cured or get the strength that they need for their next trip on the sea.

It has been turned into basically a museum, registered as a industrial heritage, and there are flocks of photographers and enthusiasts coming to photograph it.