Japan “ghost town” Kinojawa Onsen with strange hotels visited by YouTube Luke Bradburn

A urban explorer revealed the city of reserved resort to Japan, where tall hotels sit along a cliff on the banks of the river. It was not touched by more than three decades, according to reports.

Locke Bradburn, 28, stumbled on the forgotten tourist destination in Kenojawa Onsen during a trip to Japan in early 2024.

While his original goal was to document the Fukushima exclusion area, Gardenburn ventured outside the region and found “the ghost town”.

“I was exploring the other nearby sites when I came across this entire province of abandoned hotels,” Bradburn told SWNS News Agency.

“It was like walking in the ghost city.”

Kinugawa Onsen was once a loud resort city with its natural hot springs.

It began to decrease in the early 1990s during the Japanese economic recession period.

With tourism drying, many hotels were closed.

But due to the country’s strict property laws, buildings have never been demolished. Many remain the legal oblivion after the death of the owners, either without heirs or completely disappeared, according to SWNS.

“It is completely different in Japan,” said Bradburn.

“The crime rate is so low that the abandoned buildings do not loot or destroy quickly.”

He added: “In some cases, they need the owner’s permission to demolish, and if the owner dies, they will not be able to law from 30 years.”

The remainder of the day seems to be a strange scene, with a full street of huge multi -storey hotels slowly rot.

SWNS said that Pradburn, who is from Greater Manchester and is now a full -time explorer, spent six hours moving in enlarged paths, broken ladders, and unstable declines in about five or six of the twenty structures.

It was often moving between buildings through interconnected corridors.

“From the outside, everything is enlarged and decomposed,” he said. “But at home, some rooms were primitive – just as no one has touched them for decades.”

Bradburn found himself in the salaries of hotels full of forgotten remnants of the past – the traditional Japanese ONSEN bathrooms, the rooms that they did not touch, and even drinks that are still sitting on the tables, according to the same source.

“One of the strangest things was walking in the hallway and seeing the huge deer still standing there.”

“It was strange. I saw pictures of her online before, then suddenly we were face to face with her.”

He said that some spaces felt like a time capsules.

“We have found corridors that are still full of games and tables with drinks and rooms that seemed to have not touched for decades,” said Bradburn.

“It was surreal.”

He said that a lot of the region was very dangerous for mobility.

He said: “There were missing floors, suspended stairs, and parts where I had to retreat because everything had collapsed.”

“It was really unsafe in some areas. You had to be very careful.”

Pradburn said that the entire experience, in general, was emotional and confusing.

He said: “Each (building) poetry is as if to enter into a time capsule.”

“You have a feeling of what life should be here at its peak – then it just stopped,” he said.

“It is strange, sad and wonderful at the same time.”

SWNS said, Kinugawa Onsen still draws some curious visitors, but the ghost city of abandoned hotels stands as a calm and mysterious comment in Japan.

Many of them are still hidden in sight, and the Bradburn experience – is still awaiting its discovery.