Here we are in the middle of the mountains, in the Izu Peninsula. Under dense vegetation, there is a resort once popular with the Japanese from Fukuoka and Tokyo. This is the water park “Sports World”. The entry begins with the locker room, just to put in shorts or bikinis, showers, and a small clinic/pharmacy to treat minor injuries.
The locker rooms were illegally violently occupied. The walls are covered with graffiti and abandoned empty bottles are strewn on the ground and there are things more or less suspect.
The place could be renovated and you could live in it (the surroundings are really nice) but it will probably never be, because of the many ghosts and spirits who prowl. At least, that’s probably what the locals must think.
The park also encloses the apartments where you could stay with a beautiful view of the pool.
Then you proceed to the attractions. They are mainly slides in tubes, but there is also a rapid river. The park was not that big, but there was apparently also a gym.
It is my first ruin and I am not sure what I am doing here 🙂
We come back to the apartments and the main building.
Sports World was abandoned in 1993. The abandoned park was destroyed years later, in 2011.
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Sports World was abandoned in 1993? The ID badge has ’96 on it…
Great pictures. Thank you so much.
This is true, but I think it was officially closed in 1993… and maybe there was still staff working there for a while, I am not sure. Thanks for liking those pictures, they are my very first photos taken with a DSLR and it was also the first ruin I ever visited in Japan successfully! This article means a lot to me.
as mas reportajes de parques acuaticos abandonados porfas 😀
Thanks, though I don’t really get it 😉
He says he wants to read more about abandoned wáter parks 😉
Haha, thanks 🙂 He will get more hopefully, but I uploaded the others on haikyo.org. They are not impressive enough to be put on Totoro Times.