It’s incredible this building is still standing though.Īnd the operating room, which used to have a surgical light. The hospital also changed a lot between 20, but it is still fun to explore. This infamous doctor’s office also contains human organs, and among them, the horrendous Nichitsu Brain! But it seems somebody stole it, unfortunately. Since I went to many more, you can see more of them here: Abandoned Hospitals in Japan and Little Abandoned Japanese Clinics. The Nichitsu Clinic is the first abandoned hospital I went to.
That was my friend Joan by the way, believe it or not but she used to be my co-worker. It seems that a few of the buildings were used again in the ’90s by young men – in the rooms of the most modern ones we found karaoke machines, manga books, piles of pornography, Gundam robot models and even a giant Pikachu (which we will see again, a bit later). Sometime in the ’80s, the once prosperous village was abandoned. The bosses lived in pleasant houses with tiled roofs and good exposure to the sun, whereas the ordinary workers’ apartments along the riverside or on the cliff slopes had no bathrooms. There were two schools, a clinic, a post office and even a cinema. So the village grew in size until in its heyday it had as many as 3,000 residents. The workers had to live on site because of the distance from the main cities.
Nichitsu is the name of the mining company that owns the village. The abandoned tin-mining village, about 50 km from Chichibu in Saitama, can also be reached from Kofu in Yamanashi. I never fail to take friends interested in haikyo to Nichitsu, as it’s not dangerous, it’s not a secret spot, and it’s a good introduction to what is haikyo. It’s easily accessible from Tokyo by car for a one-day trip and a worthwhile experience. I’ve visited Nichitsu Ghost Town (ニッチツ鉱山村) several times, the first time was in 2010, and the last was in 2017.
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