20 photos of incredibly beautiful abandoned places in Japan

Exploring and photographing abandoned buildings is becoming an increasingly popular hobby. On the web you can find a lot of pictures of abandoned European villas, Russian huts, American mining towns. But Japan is a completely different world, and the abandoned places there are not at all like those that can be found in other parts of the planet.

Photographer and traveler Roman Veillon (Romain Veillon) drove through the Land of the Rising Sun, photographing Japanese abandoned objects. These places, in which time seems to sleep, amaze with their beauty and tranquility

A long-abandoned hotel has been captured by the forces of nature

Abandoned hotel for intimate meetings

Abandoned mineral bath - onsen - in a closed hotel

The abandoned house of a kannushi priest, the owner of a Shinto temple

Abandoned amusement park

You won't believe it, but this laboratory, where scientists studied snakes, was also abandoned

Abandoned vintage hotel in the style of the 1960s

Closed school

Closed strip club

Former Doctor's house

Abandoned amusement park

Thousands of funerary tablets are stored in an abandoned sanctuary in the mountains

Abandoned amusement park "Western Village" with a miniature replica of Mount Rushmore

The amusement park, built in the style of cowboys and Indians, has long been overgrown with grass

Shooting gallery in an abandoned amusement park in the style of "western"

A room in an abandoned hotel

The lobby of an abandoned hotel

A closed and forgotten slot machine hall

Ruins of an ochre factory

All that remains of the old medical office

The warehouse of the abandoned hotel is gradually overgrown with grass