We set out on this day to explore the long-abandoned theme park known as “Shidaka Utopia”. I've never seen a place more likely to be inhabited by snakes, spiders and ghosts than this nightmare amusement park.

Monster wisteria vines

The 'haunted house' was about 100x scarier because of the live bat flying around...

The boiler room!

A piece of forgotten technology

Ant-infested leather sofa... creepy!

Ghost hunter gang

Following the long-overgrown lift chair cables

View of Beppu from the top of the lift

HDR tweaked image of the weather that day