A video of an infiltration into the ruins of Nara Dreamland becomes hugely popular overseas, with over 6 million views
Nara Dreamland , which closed in 2006, is famous for the fact that the playground equipment and buildings were not removed and remain in ruins even after the closure. The ruins are popular overseas, and videos of people sneaking inside the park are being viewed on YouTube. It is not a good idea to enter the place, but it is a valuable video that gives us a detailed understanding of the current situation, where there are quite a few 'visitors' other than the people who entered.
Nara Dreamland is located about a 20-minute walk from both JR Nara Station and Kintetsu Nara Station.
Nara Dreamland was opened in 1961 by impresario Kunizo Matsuo , who was so impressed by Disneyland that it opened in Anaheim, California in 1955 that he said, 'We want an amusement park like Disneyland in Japan.' Matsuo even went so far as to meet Walt Disney to solicit an amusement park. Disney didn't take him seriously at first, but they relented when Matsuo brought in an engineer, and provided the technology. However, they were unable to obtain a license, so the park was completed as a 'classic Disneyland-style' amusement park.
The infiltration was by
Sarah is sneaking in.
The main story starts at 1 minute 25 seconds. They entered the park at 2am to avoid the security guards. They didn't know what kind of security was in place, and 'getting caught in a foreign country' was not on their itinerary, so they were very cautious when they first turned on the lights.
Apparently, the DomDom hamburger restaurant is 'hundreds of times scarier than it looked in the photos.'
The buildings themselves are all well preserved, but there is graffiti all over the exterior walls.
The ruins and the panel for Ultraman Cosmos (broadcast from 2001 to 2002) don't seem to fit together, but since the station was open until 2006, you can still find things like this.
There were a lot of leaflets left behind.
At about 7 minutes and 55 seconds into the movie, he tweeted, 'Some Japanese kids are here.' After this, when I shone a light on him, he ran away.
Graffitied Ultraman
10 minutes into the movie, as I was walking down the main street, I saw a flashlight coming from up ahead...
Apparently, this is the group that had escaped earlier.
They briefly met up and had a little exchange. It was only about two minutes in the movie, but how long were they together?
A creepy statue sitting down.
Eventually, we entered what seemed to be a tunnel.
There's no way there's a mine in an amusement park...
It turned out to be a haunted house.
It seemed to be a Chinese-style haunted house and was quite creepy.
We go through the haunted house and arrive at the trapeze.
We heard more human voices so we turned off the lights. Unlike the previous group, this time the visitors were making destruction noises as they moved around, so as to avoid being found.
Jungle Adventure entrance.
The water is not drained and remains there.
The remains of what could have been a character inviting us on an adventure.
Thomas with a cracked face.
This is a roller coaster.
It's not moving so I walk along the course.
But the lights go out again. Not because the sky is turning white, but because the voices of the group of visitors who were making the sounds of destruction earlier can be heard again. If you turn up the volume of the movie, you can hear the metallic sounds of a door opening and closing.
It starts to get light around here, so we explore without lights.
Again, a voice can be heard coming from the coaster.
Overlooking the pool.
The grass is overgrown.
It was getting brighter and I could hear human voices that sounded different from before.
A castle with a fancy atmosphere.
The knight was wearing something that looked like a penguin.
The inside looks like this, and it seems there was an attraction where videos were shown.
The brick-like building you can see in front is the station for the vehicle that travels around the park.
A merry-go-round with peeling paint.
As we walked around the area, we noticed that the headless statue that had been sitting there when it was dark had rolled over, meaning that another visitor had kicked it or something and made it roll.
A nostalgic style teacup.
I discovered the mountain the coaster runs through.
There is a spare coaster parked at the station.
'Shock Warning!!'
Regardless, I went inside.
View from the mountain.
There is a handrail continuing upwards, but it seems that no one climbed up to this point.
Rusty rails.
The facility used to be a game center.
This would have once been a way to get around the park, but now it's used as a paint material.
This is what the inside looks like.
'Shooting Battle GALLANTRY'
It seems to have been a shooting game where you move around in a vehicle and defeat enemies.
This strange thing is thought to be the enemy.
The inside of this facility is also pretty creepy.
The finale is a bright one with a face in the frame.
'The park was recently sold to a real estate company for $7 million.' After it closed, there was no buyer for a long time, but at a public auction held in November 2015, SK Housing, a real estate company headquartered in Kita-ku, Osaka, won the bid for 730 million yen.
'However, it is unclear what they plan to build.' SK Housing itself
The successful bidder, SK Housing, is expected to spend hundreds of millions of yen to demolish the abandoned buildings.
If you watch this infiltration video, you can see that it has become a popular spot, but it's not just people who like ruins and come to see them or take photos; there are also people who are destroying the facilities, giving the impression that the security situation is not good. It would be better if Google could just digitize the ruins, like they can now see the entire ruins, including the restricted areas, of Gunkanjima on Google Street View, but it seems that the only way to fundamentally solve the problem is to demolish the buildings. I wonder when redevelopment will actually take place...
Added 2019/07/03 11:59
When this article was published on July 4th, 2016 at 11pm, the number of views was 'just over 80,000,' but since then, the number has increased to 'just over 2 million,' so the title has been updated.
Updated 2024/07/04 18:00
The video has been viewed over 6 million times, so we've updated the title.
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