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Trashed Resort: Japan’s Abandoned New Muroto Sky Rest

05 Jan

[ By Steve in Abandoned Places & Architecture. ]

abandoned Sky Rest New Muroto
Vacation not “vacant” enough? Abandoned in 1978, Japan‘s New Muroto Sky Rest resort is apparently patronized only by zombies or those hiding from them.

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Little is known of the New Muroto Sky Rest resort before its closure and abandonment in 1978… perhaps that’s why the place closed and was abandoned. Certainly its location at the tip of Cape Muroto – a rocky, windswept peninsula jutting southeastward into the Pacific Ocean – was both scenic and accessible by major highways. Then there’s the “prehistoric robot” facade gazing menacingly out to sea. Credit Flickr user Craig Hunter (pictor ignotus) with the above images captured in June of 2009.

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Cape Muroto is the largest cape in Shikoku, the smallest of Japan’s four main islands. While considered by many to be Japan’s version of the boondocks, Shikoku is popular with tourists performing the traditional pilgrimage to 88 select temples and a number of hot spring inns and resorts cater to weary wanderers in search of rejuvenation. Kudos to Abandoned Kansai for the above images dating from April of 2011.

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The New Muroto Sky Rest did not have an on-site “onsen” – in fact, it had little to recommend itself as a resort besides its stunning seaside setting. According to urbex vet Jordy Meow, the complex featured a restaurant, a video-game parlor (de rigueur in the Seventies) and a pair of cantilevered side wings which offered unparalleled views of Cape Muroto and the ocean beyond.

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The wings are still extant, as are the aforementioned views but as for the rest… put it this way, if it wasn’t nailed down or too heavy to carry away, it’s gone for good. We should mention that those scenic views are towards the ocean: over the past couple of decades Cape Muroto has become infested with more than a few ugly telecommunications towers, radio antennae, and even a wind farm.

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Scattered Marbles: 10 Smashed, Bashed & Trashed Statues

06 Jul

[ By Steve in Culture & History & Travel. ]

smashed statues

As our age’s great and powerful leaders rise and fall, so do the narcissistic, now Ozymandias-like statues they raised to celebrate their fleeting triumph.

Duck, Gaddafi

smashed statue Gaddafi Libya

The 2011 Libyan Revolution was characterized by the release of pent-up hatred against the country’s long-time leader, Muammar Gaddafi. As with most megalomaniacal dictators, Gaddafi diligently promulgated a cult of personality during his four decades at the helm and left the country chock-a-block with self-laudatory statues and monuments.

smashed statue Gaddafi Libya U.S fighter plane sculpture

One of the most famous/infamous was the gargantuan golden Fist Crushing a U.S. Fighter Plane sculpture once located in the elite Bab al-Azizia compound in Tripoli. This sculpture and many others depicting Gaddafi personally were damaged, defaced and destroyed in the wake of Gaddafi’s downfall.

Falling Star

smashed statue China Monroe

Even non-political leaders deemed worthy of statutory immortality find themselves down in the dumps… in this case, a trash dump in the Chinese city of Guigang. Once the tallest Marilyn Monroe statue in the world, the 8.18-meter (26.84-ft) tall painted stainless steel statue had stood proudly within the grounds of a local business center since the end of 2013. Monroe’s reign lasted a mere six months, however, and in June of 2014 the statue was unceremoniously knocked off its footings, chained to a flatbed truck, and hauled to the city dump.

Lenin Towers

smashed statue Lenin Ukraine

smashed statues Lenin Ukraine

smashed Lenin statues Ukraine 2014

Ukraine not weak, nor are the bolts fastening hundreds of statues of Lenin to their plinths so what happened when an irresistible force met these unmovable objects? Hundreds of Lenins leaned, then fell, all across Ukraine’s vast territory in early 2014 as tensions between pro-EU and pro-Russian activists reached a fever pitch. What may have been most surprising was that hundreds of statues of Lenin still stood in Ukraine in early 2014!

Trash Mountain Or Bust

smashed mannequin Trash Mountain New Delhi

New Delhi, India produces 9,200 tons of waste daily and with no effective plan even in the discussion stage, that amount is expected to double by 2024. So, where does it all go? Much ends up in “Trash Mountain”, a 300 – 400m (about 1,150 ft) long and 40m (130 ft) high dynamic dump in the district of Ghazipur. Anything and everything from dinner scraps to the shattered mannequin above ends up on Trash Mountain, there to be picked over by crows, wild dogs, innumerable flies and an army of human “rag pickers”.

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