{"id":58132,"date":"2024-12-19T22:58:33","date_gmt":"2024-12-19T21:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=58132"},"modified":"2025-12-19T00:18:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T23:18:21","slug":"the-intrepid-path-that-children-took-to-a-now-abandoned-school-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/12\/19\/the-intrepid-path-that-children-took-to-a-now-abandoned-school-in-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"The intrepid path that children took to a now abandoned school in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Going to school is an everyday activity that millions of children around the world do. An activity that can be very routine.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/08\/14\/ikeshima-a-semi-abandoned-japanese-island-that-has-post-apocalyptic-landscapes\/\">Ikeshima, a semi-abandoned Japanese island that has post-apocalyptic landscapes<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/01\/22\/inside-the-fukushima-exclusion-zone-the-scene-of-the-2011-disaster-in-japan\/\">Inside the Fukushima exclusion zone, the scene of the 2011 disaster in Japan<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>However, <strong>in some countries, many children travel long distances every day to get to school<\/strong>, and some of these routes would be worthy of a movie. This was the case of <strong>a now abandoned elementary school deep in the mountains of Wakayama Prefecture<\/strong>, Japan.<\/p>\n<p>A few months ago, the YouTube channel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@TokyoLensExplore\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tokyo Lens Explore<\/a> <strong>published an interesting book showing this school<\/strong>, which is still in very good condition (such a place in the West would already be vandalized). In addition, the author of the video walked <strong>the path that led to the school, through a long tunnel and over a 62-meter-long suspension bridge:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Inside an Abandoned School (With an Amazing Secret)\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uOCHf9nsZU4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Here we can see some screenshots from the video. <strong>This is the abandoned school.<\/strong> There is not a single graffiti on it, nor is there a single broken window. You can tell it is in Japan.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54214374657_65a8cece86_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>To avoid a mountain, <strong>children went to school through this long, damp tunnel<\/strong>. Japanese horror movie makers would do wonders with something like this.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54214374662_0918ea8629_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Before the tunnel (which we see in the background), <strong>the children had to cross this suspension bridge<\/strong>, situated six metres above a river. In this place, the children definitely had to be like Indiana Jones' apprentices.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54214374667_5c2b8f56f1_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On the other side of the bridge, <strong>the houses of the village seem abandoned, but everything is in good condition<\/strong>, with no signs of vandalism.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54215282386_47e2889188_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Going to school is an everyday activity that millions of children around the world do. An activity that can be very routine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19536,19075],"tags":[12880,23303],"class_list":["post-58132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-said-yesterday","category-routes","tag-japan","tag-wakayama"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-12 00:55:52","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}