Comments on: On Abandoned Ski Resorts in Japan | 逃散 http://thisjapaneselife.org/2010/11/23/abandoned-ski-resorts-japan/ A New England Expat in Japan. Thu, 03 Apr 2014 22:52:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: owwls http://thisjapaneselife.org/2010/11/23/abandoned-ski-resorts-japan/#comment-2521 Wed, 10 Apr 2013 15:51:07 +0000 http://thisjapaneselife.org/?p=262#comment-2521 Could be Kumamoto, in fact that seems more likely.

]]> By: Patrick Pyott http://thisjapaneselife.org/2010/11/23/abandoned-ski-resorts-japan/#comment-2520 Wed, 10 Apr 2013 15:48:22 +0000 http://thisjapaneselife.org/?p=262#comment-2520 Hi, just wondering; is this hotel in Kumamoto or Oita? I couldn’t find a Sekia Hotel in Oita, but there is one in Kumamoto. It looks interesting!

]]> By: On Hunting Whales in Japan | This Japanese Life. | 生命を外面九天です http://thisjapaneselife.org/2010/11/23/abandoned-ski-resorts-japan/#comment-2515 Wed, 10 Apr 2013 13:02:54 +0000 http://thisjapaneselife.org/?p=262#comment-2515 [...] four-star hotel on the top of a mountain in a rural farming, connected to what remains of an abandoned ski complex in Oita prefecture. The hotel is mostly empty, with no attractions luring people to its rooms. The [...]

]]> By: On Figuring Out What’s Up With the Yen in Japan | This Japanese Life. | 生命を外面九天です http://thisjapaneselife.org/2010/11/23/abandoned-ski-resorts-japan/#comment-2180 Wed, 30 Jan 2013 13:29:43 +0000 http://thisjapaneselife.org/?p=262#comment-2180 [...] to everyone in Japan like candy, and Japanese people essentially just ate it, building shit like ski resorts on tropical islands and indoor wave pools on beaches. And as always happens when everyone is rich and happy and stupid, [...]

]]> By: Sam (For Fukui's Sake: Two years in rural Japan) http://thisjapaneselife.org/2010/11/23/abandoned-ski-resorts-japan/#comment-2071 Fri, 30 Nov 2012 19:47:21 +0000 http://thisjapaneselife.org/?p=262#comment-2071 Interesting. Very interesting. I thought Kyushu did get some natural though? There are a few other small ski areas there I think? I also share a love for the delapidated, forgotten places though.

cheers

Sam

]]> By: The DNA of a Japanese Suburb | This Japanese Life. | 生命を外面九天です http://thisjapaneselife.org/2010/11/23/abandoned-ski-resorts-japan/#comment-153 Wed, 29 Dec 2010 09:09:46 +0000 http://thisjapaneselife.org/?p=262#comment-153 [...] boom at the end of the 1980′s that collapsed along with the housing and spending bubbles (see Sekia Hills, the resort that never should have [...]

]]> By: Claire http://thisjapaneselife.org/2010/11/23/abandoned-ski-resorts-japan/#comment-106 Tue, 30 Nov 2010 15:07:09 +0000 http://thisjapaneselife.org/?p=262#comment-106 This is one of my favorite posts of yours.

Are there any posts you haven’t categorized as Weird?

]]> By: RSA Now http://thisjapaneselife.org/2010/11/23/abandoned-ski-resorts-japan/#comment-105 Mon, 29 Nov 2010 22:25:53 +0000 http://thisjapaneselife.org/?p=262#comment-105 That’s a beautiful tragedy right there. You should check out Rokkosan, there are some things just like this; big, beautiful, abandoned, mansions.

]]> By: owwls http://thisjapaneselife.org/2010/11/23/abandoned-ski-resorts-japan/#comment-102 Tue, 23 Nov 2010 01:47:47 +0000 http://thisjapaneselife.org/?p=262#comment-102 Ha! True. And ironic. If only Sekia Hills had built a ceiling over its slopes…

]]> By: sixmats http://thisjapaneselife.org/2010/11/23/abandoned-ski-resorts-japan/#comment-101 Tue, 23 Nov 2010 01:23:49 +0000 http://thisjapaneselife.org/?p=262#comment-101 When talking about bubble businesses, you left out “indoor skiing”.

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