Abandoned Russian Village in Niigata?

[matsuki]

This is making the rounds on the net....

I'm often quite near here for work. WTF is that "Abandoned Russian Village?"

[Samurai_Jerk]

First hit on Google.

http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/aban ... an-village

[matsuki]

In Mother Russia, theme park visits you? WTF?

[wagyl]

It is just a short distance from the abandoned Turkish cultural village theme park. I kid you not. Niigata was blessed with a few bubble projects.

Haikyo porn http://www.michaeljohngrist.com/2008/09 ... o-niigata/

Let's just hope that the rustic-built California-Kingsize-bed and masonry stove theme park in rural Niigata doesn't shut down after only 6 months of operation.

[matsuki]

It is just a short distance from the abandoned Turkish cultural village theme park. I kid you not. Niigata was blessed with a few bubble projects.

I never understood why the inaka here always has these weird foreign "villages." It's like, if I want to go hiking or something, I'd rather see nature, not some plastic-looking [insert country here]-(hollow stereotype filled) themed village.

[wagyl]

People who go for a day-trip hiking don't drop 10000 Yen notes for the privilege. And, if your day is not structured and you can't hear music from the public address system, you are not having fun.

I honestly don't know how you can claim to understand this country if you don't know that.

[matsuki]

People who go for a day-trip hiking don't drop 10000 Yen notes for the privilege. And, if your day is not structured and you can't hear music from the public address system, you are not having fun.

I honestly don't know how you can claim to understand this country if you don't know that.

The idea of trying to bleed the tourists dry is universal....I just find it really weird for people to flock to the natural beauty of countryside of Japan...for the fake ass foreign village experience. Then again, I can't stand the cement lined rivers and such either. Either way, judging by all the apparent failures, these ventures aren't exactly what the locals wanted either.

FYI, in California we have this:



...and it ain't cheap either.

[Samurai_Jerk]

FYI, in California we have this:

Indian themed?

[Wage Slave]

FYI, in California we have this:

Indian themed?

[Doctor Stop]

Indian themed?

Tim Curry themed:

Tim-Curry-Rocky-Horror1.jpg

[wagyl]

That is one camp Curry.

[Russell]

Looks like the only country-related theme park that is doing well is the Dutch one, Huis ten Bosch.

But that was only after HIS took it over.

[kurogane]

People who go for a day-trip hiking don't drop 10000 Yen notes for the privilege. And, if your day is not structured and you can't hear music from the public address system, you are not having fun.

I honestly don't know how you can claim to understand this country if you don't know that.

Well put :claps:

There is also a bureaucratic-inustrial complex aspect: almost to a one they are local economic revitalisation boondoggles: the capital funds are disbursed from above which gives the local economy a small economic uptick during construction, then there is an initial interest and slight economic uptick when it opens, and then begins the long slide into Haikyo Land when the initial 5-10 year national/prefectural economic development funding ends and the maintenance becomes a local tax burden. People rant and rave because Shirakawa-Go and Gokayama are Too Touristy even though they're real communities and then they go to these erstaz Dinkylands and clap and giggle at the Authentic Fakery. The real problem with any of those type of parks is they are a once is enough attraction, and they simply cannot shake that albatross off their necks. I despise them as regional vitalisation projects. They're not just a waste of money, they also get locals' hopes up. It's cruel, and pointless.

BTW, I though Huis Den Bosch did or almost did go under and then was rescued.

From Wikipedia:

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The park recorded the peak of 4.25 million visitors in 1996. However, due to the fall of the number of visitors caused by economic slump in Japan, the park declared bankruptcy in 2003 with debt of 220 billion yen.[1] The rebuilding plan was sponsored by Nomura Principal Finance Company until March 2010, when H.I.S., a travel agency, took over the management by injecting 2 billion yen

I find it funny the tour company is called HIS when 99% of their customers are women, or ladies

[Russell]

A decade or so ago I went to Onokoro land in Awaji island after it was claimed to have been "reformed". If that was reformed, then I don't even want to imagine what it looked like before.

Anyways, we got into a small boat that led us past all attractions, and I have never laughed so hard, because half of them looked like they had been nuked. That was very much a fun day with the family.

[Mike Oxlong]

Meanwhile Tohoku Safari Park got some elephants from Laos "to cheer up disaster victims after the Great East Japan Earthquake". One wonders if homes or jobs or a competent leader at TEPCO would elevate their spirits?

http://www.japanupdate.com/2015/12/fuku ... n-okinawa/