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We are so happy to finally present this video that we shot waaay back in September 2022. This is the last part of our Hachijojima series. Upcoming videos will be back in Tokyo. Thank you for being patient with us as our posting cadence has slowed a bit! 🙂
Ceilings are really low? As are the doorways… hmmmm
I'm beginning to think this is really the 'Hotel California'. You checked in, and never checked out….🤪
The room with the fern looked really interesting. Great shots, as always.
Too bad nobody saved those pianos even if they are photographic. Maybe that's why the marble tiles and other items remain, too much ghostly beauty to remove them.
Immediately great shot coming in hot right out of the gate. 😂
I finally bought a Ricoh GRIII a couple weeks ago from their site because of this channel. Idk if you have any videos planned for Ricoh, but it would be cool to see you take the walk from Shibuya to Shin-Okubo by Yoyogi and the Kyu-Shibuya-Gawa with the GRIII + GRIIIX. The Asakusa video for them is still one of the best photography videos I've ever seen on YouTube.
I also really liked the evening 24mm video you did over in Ikebukero. It would be cool to see that lens out again on the Z9 if you still have it.
Absolute one-of-a-kind photo channel here, great to see you back. ✌️
was getting worried we wouldn't see you again. nice opening and more hotel fun
I want MORE !!!!!!
That place is a gold mine.
Love this kind of photography, is it feasible for you to add a photo adventure to this sort of place?
Unique content and photo venue — not likely to be found elsewhere on YT. 👍 New nickname – Lukasz Trespass😁. Mold, mildew, asbestos, eerie hex signs, but “concrete won’t collapse so easily” so let’s go ahead. Place looks ripe for savvy salvager — lots of TVs, furnishings, lights, pianos, etc. Photo-wise, rooms w/green growth my fav images — like something made by AI or photoshop. Helpful comments about your choice of ISO. Any more of this genre in the back pocket, awaiting new posts? Hope your health insurance and vaccinations are current.😁
In such a damp environment, is condensation on gear an issue? Cheers!
The Last of Us vibes 😮
Used to really like the street stuff you did. This is not as interesting.
I recently watched Station Eleven, and this place gives me similar dystopian vibes.
Worst Airbnb ever
It’s crazy that that place was never salvaged.
Unless you're like 8 feet tall, but are the doors and ceilings a little too low?
The room with all the growth kinda reminds me of a Shaun Tan illustration, in "Tales from the Inner City," where there's like a forest landscape and a deer in an apartment, looking out across the city. Bizarre and evocative, all at once.
Love to see you guys back. Really enjoy this kind of videos where it's all about exploring unknown/abandoned places. I also said "wow" when you entered some of those rooms haha. Really cool stuff.
Wow, an incredible location and stellar shots: another great video.
I must have missed that there were four of you there, though, and the glimpse of another person at 14:32 gave me a good scare.
I hear the grand piano was put there for a music video? That's why it's not as deteriorated as the rest of the room. The last time I saw that room it was nowhere near as bad as it was. The two mountain logo seems to be the logo used for the last incarnation of the hotel before it was abandoned. It's too frequent throughout the hotel for it to be anything more than that.
According to a Facebook page on the place, the building was damaged due to extreme winter weather not long after you filmed this. Sad to hear. Don't know anything about how badly damaged it got, but I doubt it'll ever be rebuilt or repurposed, even though structurally it's probably fine as far as buildings go. It's a very good example of how solid Japanese architecture can be. It's just probably too expensive to do anything with it.
It's amazing how intact the Presidential suite is compared to the rest of the hotel. Maybe it's because it's well away from sea level?
Hey there! I have always enjoyed your videos and always wanted to go visit Japan! Now that I have the chance to go to Japan, I was wondering if you can give me 6-10 spots in Tokyo that are street photographing! Unfortunately I only have 2 full days in Tokyo before I leave and explore to more ‘off the beaten path’ areas, and so i was wondering if you can help me making the best 2 days photo project in Tokyo! Hahahaha. What are some of the spots that can’t be missed? I have Ginza, Shibuya, and Tokyo Tower as my first 3 essential spots!
Shoutout to your cameraman. Brilliant technique. Surprised that some parts of the hotel are still in a pretty decent condition.
I think this is the same place that Yes Theory just release a video about… towards the end of their video – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pR_QkaDRVg0
chica is doing very well 🙂 I could have spend at least a week in that place, so many details, backddrops, mirrows, light and shadows, but I know from experiance, the tropics suck
o08:33 Definite The Last of Us Vibes (the first game, not the awful HBO series). Especially the hotel scenes in the game… not that v1ru$es even exl$t, of course.
13:39 Fascinating how you were immediately repelled by those (clearly Illuminati, Freemasonic Sun Symbols) throughout this video, whereas your Japanese friend was not. You were referring to them as 'cults' but that symbolism goes much deeper. Europeans are very sensitive to this symbolism because we know it represents ancient slave symbolism of our people.