Top 10 Best Japanese Ghost Towns

Places or town is known as haikyo, a Japanese word that means ruins. And this is a list of 10 of the most historic and most horrific city in Japan.

1. Sports World Theme Park
Is a large theme park featuring a hotel, mini-golf, fitness center, swimming pool, wave pool, etc. After being abandoned for 20 years, this place is overgrown with grass. lots of animal sounds such as screaming monkeys, owls at night, increase the spooky of this place.

2. Fuchu U.S. Air Force Base
Air Force base at Fuchu, built during World War II and abandoned in the 1980s.

3. Matsuo Ghost Town
Matsuo mine in northern Japan was opened in 1914 and closed in 1969. In its glory, this mine is the largest sulfur mine in the East. Its has 4000 workforce, and the wider population of 15,000 people, all accommodated in a emergency town in the Hachimantai Park mountains. The city is also known as "Heaven on a Cloud"

4. Akasaka Love Hotel
Akasaka Love Hotel located at the end of the strip in a quiet country road in western Tokyo. The hotel was  closed after three years of operation, it is unclear why the hotel closed, but from the news circulated because it rarely visitor to the hotel.

5. The Toyo Bowling Alley
Yokoi came to Tokyo in 1928. In 1957, he was the manager of a bowling alley and department stores. In 1958, he was shot by Yakuza gangsters to 20 million yen in outstanding debt - but he survived. In 1987, he established Toyo Bowling. It has 108 lines, and is the largest bowling alley in Japan. In 1991, he bought the Empire State Building in New York. and then the place went bankrupt in 1999.

6. Osarizawa Factory and Mine
Gold and copper mining in the mine Osarizawa began at 7th century and closed in 1978. Now the site is owned by Mitsubishi museum. One legend involves the mine Osarizawa Lion-headed Gorgon with the wings of the phoenix, cow foot and head of the snake, terrible roar for children in nearby villages.

7. The Russian Village Theme Park
A huge complex which was originally used for recreation ended up to be a tremendous failure. The Russian Village Theme Park in Niigata was opened in 2002 but was closed just 6 months later due to lack of visitors.

8. Keishin Radiology Hospital
Keishin Hospital in Kanagawa prefecture was once the leading hospital with super high-tech radiology equipment. And this place was destroyed by the act of vandals.

9. Ashio Dozan Ghost Town
Ashio Dozan is a mining town in the mountains about 200 kilometers northwest of Tokyo, and is famous in Japanese history as the site of extreme environmental damage. The city was largely abandoned 40 years ago, the mines and factories closed, and new standards in environmental care is called for at the highest national level.

10. Yamanaka Lake's Lost Bunker
is an underground bunker with Lake Yamanaka in the shadow of Mount Fuji. This place is not populated and the history of this place was unclear. Finally, the mystery was solved by an explorer who has found a magazine featuring a logo on the location of Bunkerit belongs to Sanyo Securities brokerage firm, which went bankrupt in 1999.