Abandoned Amusement Park
Created on: November 3rd, 2006
Abandoned amusement park in Japan
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Yeah, apparently there are a lot of sights like this in Japan due to the recession they've been feeling for awhile. It's a sad thing, though it's worth mentioning that the movie Spirited Away kicks off in an abandoned amusement park and a few words of explanation are given. I enjoyed this YTMND, though, the music was a good choice and made it tragic. Not the traditional YTMND I would reserve 5's for, but it evoked a good reaction and that's what good art (which in this case is juxtaposition) does.
To AngryCat, did you ever see Spirited Away? The Father in that movie said that many amusement parks in Japan went bankrupt and were abandoned in the late 80's/early 90's. If you want to see even scarier pictures of parks that are actually open, I saw some Egyptian park where a lot of the rides were incredibly broken down and the go-kart track became a running track. Then at Nara Dreamland, another Japanese park, there's that old rollercoaster they converted into a walkthrough because of budget troubles.
I don't know why everyone finds this creepy. It has a bit of a sad aura to it, but I think that place would be awesome to just hang out at and crawl around. Quite frankly, I'm surprised it was just up and abandoned like that. I would've thought they would've at least tried to sell some of the rides, etc, if for nothing more than the materials that made them. To just leave it like that seems... well, uneconomical.
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