I’ve begun moving videos from my Abandoned Japan channel to my main channel in an effort at gradual consolidation ahead of our return to Japan.
This video is the first to go.
I found this abandoned mikan orange farm at the very end of a long and winding abandoned one-lane road I’d discovered in the mountains behind Yui fishing town, an hour and a half south of Tokyo. While walking alone, I’d passed at least a half dozen abandoned farms being strangled in green on either side of the road, which just got darker and seemingly more enclosed by forest as nightfall approached and the mountain pass narrowed. Like nearly all abandoned sites I’ve visited in Japan, this one had an errie atmosphere of sudden abandonment, like the farmer just up and one day left, leaving doors unlocked, farm tools in situ and work undone. It’s hard in such places to not keep checking over one’s shoulder for the farmer’s sudden return—a creaking old man in work clothes, a huge wicker basket on his back and a questioning gaze at the strange foreigner trespassing his property.
There was recent evidence of boar activity at this abandoned farm, and I could hear snow monkeys hooting softly from the dark canopy where they’d set up sleeping nests, unsettled by my ghost-like soft steps and careful, quiet intrusion. I did, in fact, linger here too long, as darkness soon overtook me on my return down the mountain, prompting a slightly panicked dangerous scramble down the side of a steep valley to the sea, passing along the way a super-spooky abandoned Shinto shrine utterly consumed by the forest, a forgotten holy place emerging suddenly from nowhere, with ancient broken and worn statues and a utterly opaque black sanctuary containing the home of this lost mountain’s god.
This was indeed a very good and memorable Japan adventure-the very essence and spirit of Abandoned Japan.
Welcome to Abandoned Japan. My name is Kurt Bell and I am delighted that you have taken some time to share a little of Japan's lost and forgotten places with me. I'm available on social media at the links below and can be reached via email at dinnerbytheriver@gmail.com.
The Good Life Meditation is my daily recitation and reminder of personal objectives and principles used in pursuit of a purposeful life in spite of a universe of seeming indifference. Learn more about The Good Life at my website GoingAlone.org or by reading my book Going Alone. And visit our Discord at: https://lnkd.in/gFgfGmY6
OBJECTIVES: 1. Be Always Ready to Die 2. Make Good Use of Time and Resources 3. Develop Good and Sound Life Principles 4. Cultivate Good Emotional Reactions 5. Perform Good Actions 6. Recognize True Limits and Opportunity 7. One Thing Slowly
PRINCIPLES: 1. Principle of War 2. Principle of Reason 3. Homunculus 4. Anchorhold 5. Home of Good and Evil 6. Principle of Purpose 7. Atomic Principle 8. Principle of Nature 9. The Pirate Ride 10. Principle of Maturity 11. Social Principle 12. Public Speaking 13. Temperance 14. Life Will Not Go Well 15. The Horror Show 16. That Which Must Be Borne 17. The Feast of Offal 18. Distraction 19. Agency and The Great Indifference 20. The Best Seat in the House 21. The Restless Man 22. The Path of Wildness 23. The Great Life Adventure 24. The Risk of Avoiding Risk 25. Sin and Damnation 26. Complete Oblivion 27. The Season of Philosophy 28. Bullseye Aim 29. The Uphill Climb 30. Arena and Utility 31. Nothing IS enough 32. The Principle of Fun
My name is Kurt Bell.
You can learn more about The Good Life in my book Going Alone.
Be safe... But not too safe.
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