Uninhabited, empty Japan.

[John Wagenseil]

The silent homes of a long-abandoned Japanese village — Tokyo Times

[spgifford]

Rather interesting to see the house abandoned like that. Thanks!

[Don Boose]

Thanks for sharing this link. Wonderful images, and the comments are interesting as well.

I think these kinds of rural houses are called akiya while the older ones with heavy post and beam construction are minka. I took a course on Japanese architecture a year or so ago, but my knowledge is very shallow.

In any event, I was glad (and a little sad) to see and read about these abandoned rural houses.

Don

[Wyvern]

That’s flat-out eerie.

Wyvern

[SungKhongGiat 82]

It's just so surreal seeing everything in these houses left untouched after all these years..

[Viator]

It's a heartbreaking scape. Why the Japanese regulations don't allow old wooden houses being restored?