DANGEROUS Theme Park in Japan RESTRICTED 🚫 by the Government!? | Meet Japan’s Takakonuma Greenland!

[@troublenyc4092]

Coaster/abandoned park explore was pretty interesting (if depressing as well), well done with the chain tutorial and all .

[@brittnaesimmons5170]

Coaster

[@BAKU2K2]

It appears that the park no longer exists, as the RCDB map link brings me to the current site of a solar farm. For confirmation, I've searched throughout the Japanese-speaking web and found an aerial photo taken between 1974 and 1978, and the geography closely matches the location provided by RCDB. In addition, the solar panels were installed sometime prior to 2018. EDIT: The parks jet coaster seems more likely to have been built by Hoei Sangyo, rather than by Meisho, judging by the track design.

[@Tenore1921]

I found the panels using the instructions on the video, so it likely doesn’t exist anymore

[@Lemonaidz7]

Maybe that’s the Japanese government’s second attempt at erasing the park’s existence on Google

[@SCinspector]

If you do a street view at those coordinates you will find the sign up in the bushes that was part of the park

[@tufab3494]

@@SCinspector exactly, I've just checked online and that giant letters were there when the park existed

[@tufab3494]

@@Lemonaidz7 no it actually isn't. The park was indeed demolished.

[@reissecupfilms]

i remember finding official coordinates (37°48'18.64"N 140°31'2.86"E) a while ago that landed me on a hill that now has a bunch of solar panels on it, and on google earth going back to 2010 before the solar panels were there i see some imprints of what looks to have been something that could've been an amusement park

[@ItsAmaliaB]

if you go to roughly 37.802965, 140.519779 and go into street view, you can actually see the japanese text that was on the hillside adjacent to the park, its still there to this very day, the last reminder of what used to be

[@reissecupfilms]

@@ItsAmaliaB Ye idk what the text says and I don't feel like looking at katakana/hiragana/Kanji charts trying to figure it out so some day I'll talk to one of my weeb friends about it

[@derossetmyers47]

That would plain the bizarre pattern.

[@kevinhanson6106]

Wow! Strange, haunting, and scandalous! It comes off like a surreal film script yet is unsettling true...

[@urbex_coasters]

Imagine if Shirakaba Resort decided to use this history as the theme to a haunt on their Bobster. After all, they do have Takakonuma Greenland's Bobster in storage, having purchased it as a parts donour due to Togo's bankrupsy. Those are the only 2 Bobsters left in existance.

[@TheKurtsPlaceChannel]

Very entertaining and fun to watch. Thanks for posting this.

[@lampshades120]

Wow that's super far but maybe I should go on a roadtrip up there next year when I go to Benyland

[@urbex_coasters]

It has been demolished, as much as I was in denial for years. The location provided by RCDB is accurate, with the field of solar pannels matching the ariel shape of the park from an older image I've seen from when the park was in operation. The entry midway is still visible within the field. That said it is true that the government lied about the park being demolished in 2006 and anyone saying it was demolished by then is full of it. Sweedish urban explorer Jens Eriksson visited the park in November of 2006, his pictures show an untouched park with no signs of incoming demolition. Online creepypastas created the fictional character of Bill Edwards as a stand in for Jens Eriksson because Eriksson is active online and in knowing the precise location has comfirmed it has been demolished, even if the claims in 2006 were bs at the time. That and it's not unknown who took the photos that circulate online, most of them that don't come from the 2 guys you see credited in the white letters on screen are screenshots from the urban explorer who filmed an actual video of the ruins (the same one you see doing the lift hill walk on Jet Coaster in this video). The individual who posted that is still active online and has comfirmed the video was filmed in 2005 and the park has since been demolished.

[@360coasters]

Yes, the same fog was outside our hotel room! We couldn’t even see universal studios Hollywood! Our hotel was right next to the park!

[@medea27]

I suspect the local govt 'cover up' wasn't as sinister as people might think. Your reputation & saving face mean a lot in Japanese society... I wouldn't be surprised if the attempts to obscure the park's location was a combination of _embarrassment_ (for being known as the location/prefecture with a park suffering so many deaths) and to _prevent more urban explorers_ going there (partially to stop more publicity & partially to stop more people getting hurt on-site). I'm also not surprised at the lack of photos/videos online because back in the late 90's/early 00's, neither urban exploration nor posting photos/videos online was a big thing. You're talking message boards & blogs (Facebook & KZbin started around '05 & weren't really popular until years later) so if this explorer visited in 2007 & then 'vanished' online it wouldn't be that big a deal. And if the park shut down 5-10 years before he got there (so sometime after '97), there would have been few photos online because digital photography wasn't common place until the mid- to late-00's & even then, it was a groundbreaking 2-5 megapixels in quality! LOL And if the site/blog you were posting your photos to stopped being maintained & was taken down, all the content vanished with it. So the reality is there wasn't much for the local govt to 'cover up'... if the park was on private land & the govt couldn't force it's demolition, then changing it's co-ordinates online would be the next best thing. Really interesting though! 👍

[@EastCoasters]

It was believed the photographer was hunted down by an angry spirit. I think there are now solar panels on that property but there are always some Easter eggs that can be found.🥃

[@Lunar_Yoshi]

Fun fact: the original name was “ever heard of this dangerous Japanese park?”

[@andrewking2193]

I know the info on this park is so hard to find (I know I've looked), but it would be cool to find out the tack lay outs of all of the coasters and who made them.

[@immortalflames1993]

arrow dynamics?

[@BAKU2K2]

For starters, both coasters were added during or after the park's 1985 reopening. The TOGO Bobster follows the same layout as all other installations of it's type, this one is however, the only example with (or at least appears to be) Schwartzkopf trains. The other coaster appears to be a custom Hoei Sangyo jet coaster, that runs alongside the hill.

[@andrewking2193]

That's really helpful as I'd like to recreate them in Planet Coaster if at all possible. I'll look up the TOGO to figure it out, but I can't find a picture of the full layout of the Jet Coaster if anyone can help.

[@urbex_coasters]

@@andrewking2193The layout to the Jet Coaster is easy to figure out. A partial POV does exist and it's included here, I also uploaded it recently. The Bobster was removed by Shirakaba Resort in 2006 so they would have a parts donour, it's still in storage there today.

[@timkuhn5396]

Thank you very much for this interesting video people it was very exciting to learn about this fascinating and mystical park keep up the good work kind regards from Switzerland

[@NationalCoasters]

Thank you!!!

[@tankchen3114]

Love these contents!

[@crow_scripts]

The park has since been demolished and a solar farm was built on it.

[@urbex_coasters]

It seems a lot of people are saying that, which I desperately want to not be true. But at the end of the day I've discovered some real abandoned amusement park stories on par with Bill Edwards, with me, Willette Athena, playing the role of Edwards (minus the dissapearing)! Notably, Joyland in Wichita, Kansas was supposedly demolished in 2016. There are even videos online of the park being demolished. But when I went in February, I found the Nightmare coaster designed by Herbert Schmeck to be still standing. At least, what wasn't destroyed by the tornado that proceeded the supposed demolition is still standing. My discovery of that reminded me of the story of Bill Edwards discovering Takakonuma Greenland still standing years after it was supposedly demolished (comparing Google street view to pictures of Takakonuma Greenland, it was demolished by 2013 (having been in denial until a few months ago), the oldest view I can get of the site, but I do believe Mr Edwards really stumbled accross an intact park sometime before 2013 and releasing the pictures in 2014. Doesn't matter a ton, doesn't matter if he was even real, because I'm real and I've lived out his story at this point)

[@urbex_coasters]

Sadly that deems most likely. Although it is possible it's the second attempt to hide it. I would find (37.8079456, 140.5373923) to be the believable location of the park. Google does have a ghost icon of the park that may date back to google's origins for the park where the solar farm is, the location I provided is a possible alternative. What could be coaster track is visible from google maps.

[@caiobrayanribeirosantana283]

But, this abandoned japanese park linger or there is from Google Maps 2022?

[@jatzbethstappen9814]

Really good!

[@otscoasters9548]

Right now I’m searching that place up on Google earth 🤞

[@andrewking2193]

If you find it you should post your findings. Best of luck 🤞

[@JoeBoat0T]

@@andrewking2193 I also tried i’m pretty sure it’s just been covered up by forest.

[@otscoasters9548]

@@JoeBoat0T Yeah I really can’t find it

[@andrewking2193]

When I looked it up I found a field of solar panels in a location that looked to be correct. If I remember correctly I went back in time on Google Earth and I think I could see rides but it's been a long time ago.

[@ThrillsofColdplay]

No wonder why people think the park could be haunted

[@otscoasters9548]

This is going to be a doozy

[@derossetmyers47]

I don’t believe the picture with the girl exists. Surely someone would have copied it from a message board and shared it on sites that are much easier to find by now.

[@j-toki_1262]

Anyone got more info on the intro song? Haven't been able to find it yet

[@Joypyf]

VERY interesting!

[@intamin.enthusiast]

Random but I need a full version of that intro song

[@Trance786]

I Love the videos you post.

[@ThrillsofColdplay]

This is a creepy park

[@chrisbeau5377]

let’s goooooo

[@7w229]

i think bill's disappearance could probably be him wanting to check out more in japan and him wanting to explore more places, like the fukishima power plant and more of fukishima.

[@otscoasters9548]

That thumbnail tho

[@rockingtr1]

It might be more interesting if you explained the images in this video instead of providing hearsay

[@Coop-su4qb]

Not nearly as creepy but history of celebration city in branson?

[@chadbroski9438]

YAY LETS GO

[@Pantomas-PG]

This video got claimed by KZbin Audio Library???

[@tt_zm69]

من طرف ليمو ☺️💗

[@washingtonairsoft8572]

Day 4 of asking for Rainer rush

[@cristi4n.anderson]

Le'sgoooo

[@washingtonairsoft8572]

Day 3 of asking for ranier rush

[@jeffreyverspaget4353]

Pffff this park is close what you do dear all the attractions stay still for along time and yes now is it dangerous oky gr Jeffrey 😘

[@chadbroski9438]

Second

[@chrisbeau5377]

nooooo

[@chadbroski9438]

@@chrisbeau5377 oh its you again hi

[@michaelt7435]

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[@kevrichmond9981]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@bjtgaming]

Look at somebody who grew up in a Christian household, I'm not looking for you to be some sort of televangelist, please go away I'm just trying to watch a roller coaster video...

[@urbex_coasters]

If I wanted tobe preached to I'd be in church, not watching coaster youtube.