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/

[legion]

I have untied against you the club-footed vines -
I have sent in the Jungle to swamp out your lines !
The trees - the trees are on you !
The house-beams shall fall;
And the Karela, the bitter Karela,
Shall cover you all !

http://asia.nikkei.com/Politics-Economy/Economy/Unclaimed-land-in-Japan-equivalent-to-size-of-Taiwan?utm_source=paid.outbrain.com&utm_campaign=BA%20JPN&utm_medium=referral

In the report, released on June 26, the group defined "unclaimed land" as plots that could not be traced back to their owners. Roughly 4.1 million hectares of land in Japan fits the definition, according to the group led by former Internal Affairs and Communications Minister Hiroya Masuda. That is roughly 11% of Japan's total area and larger than Kyushu's land area of 3.7 million hectares or Taiwan's 3.6 million hectares.

Some property registers date back so far that the address of the owner is listed in Manchukuo, a region in northeast China and Inner Mongolia that was a Japanese puppet state from 1932 to 1945, the study said.

In many cases the owners have died and the plots have been left abandoned for generations, making it nearly impossible for authorities to track down the eligible heirs.

[matsuki]

Have to keep the inflated land values up somehow....willfully ignoring all this abandoned land helps. Don't most other countries have some sorta grace period in which taxes must be paid or the land is inherited by the gov and put up for sale?

[Coligny]

I'm not too sure aboot how abandonned swampland in Niigata can translate into higher prices in Akihabara.. but then again Kapitalism is not my forte...

[matsuki]

I'm not too sure aboot how abandonned swampland in Niigata can translate into higher prices in Akihabara.. but then again Kapitalism is not my forte...

Plenty of abandoned land/homes in Tokyo as well.

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

This thread reminded me of the bubble, where every prefecture seemed to be opening some sort of gaijinmura where the locals could visit a foreign land without having to actually deal with foreigners. I looked into it a little bit. I can't find a comprehensive list, but there appears to have been about 30. I remember before Huis Ten Bosch there was Orandamura in Nagasaki. And speaking of Bosch, there are about seven German villages and at least a couple of England villages. There were Canadian, Danish, New Zealand and Spanish villages. Of course, there was even a Turkish village despite the end of Turuko baths. There was even a Mongolian village.

Sorry, thinking out aloud....

Of course, there was also a Japanese village in London at one stage.

And the spear-chucker Olympic Games in America for the St. Louis Olympics.

[Russell]

This thread reminded me of the bubble, where every prefecture seemed to be opening some sort of gaijinmura where the locals could visit a foreign land without having to actually deal with foreigners. I looked into it a little bit. I can't find a comprehensive list, but there appears to have been about 30. I remember before Huis Ten Bosch there was Orandamura in Nagasaki. And speaking of Bosch, there are about seven German villages and at least a couple of England villages. There were Canadian, Danish, New Zealand and Spanish villages. Of course, there was even a Turkish village despite the end of Turuko baths. There was even a Mongolian village.

I once stayed in a Mongolian village in Japan, but it was run by a Mongolian with his Japanese wife. Real yurt and real Mongolian food, though the yurt had an aircon installed...

[wagyl]

Who needs a yurt when you have a Minica?

[legion]

Who needs a yurt when you have a Minica?

who needs a horse when you can have a motorbike?

it's quicker to start in the morning

(this is more or less what a Mongolian granny told a friend of mine)

[Russell]

Who needs a yurt when you have a Minica?

Granted, a Minica is definitely more comfortable to lie down in...

[Russell]

Who needs a yurt when you have a Minica?

who needs a horse when you can have a motorbike?

it's quicker to start in the morning

(this is more or less what a Mongolian granny told a friend of mine)

But don't those Mongolians use the feces of those horses as heating fuel?

[wagyl]

Nah, that was just a pile they put in a corner of your yurt for shits and giggles. Calling it "authentic" was just part of the joke.

[Russell]

Nah, that was just a pile they put in a corner of your yurt for shits and giggles. Calling it "authentic" was just part of the joke.

Hmm, that explains the quality of the food...

[Buraku]

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