The lakes around Mount Fuji have also experienced their moment of glory, however fleeting. I am speaking today at Lake Yamanaka, to visit two hotels left in particular. Locally, it is that the former is being restored, but the second, a little harder to find, is a ruin. The hotel consists of two buildings, the first is completely moldy, damp, excessive, and looked like a reception hall or banquet (there are lockers for "artists"). The second is the hotel itself.

From outside, it looks more austere. It is on stilts, probably to give the floor a little more unique height to get a good view of the lake and Mount Fuji.

In addition, the tennis courts.

The main hall of the hotel. Large windows provide a direct view over the forest, but I imagine that before they gave on the lake, and possibly even Mount Fuji that should see her now.

Kawaiiiiiii! A very sweet and pleasant discovery here. A child boar broke down here. We'll get the ghost of the boar now;)

The kitchen is always well stocked, there are always plates, cutlery, oven, sauces, ... and in a back room, the boilers for water.

I am not sure but it looks like powder to the sauce to make tempura.

An old newspaper hidden behind a gate, dating from 1993. The hotel was abandoned at that time.

The rooms exude a very positive impression on holiday, we imagine here to go to camp with our little friends:) All the rooms that we have seen have bunk beds (sometimes a dozen in the same room ) and have a large bay window.

There was not enough room in this room, but it's nice to sleep in the middle too! Mattresses and blankets are still about a state (except one), it could well re-clean it all and organize a large giant squat here via Facebook!

The roof is directly accessible by a staircase outside. This is the first time I've written this way Toshiba. From here you have a beautiful view of the lake that I did not put here, I have a much better later:)

Other rooms, a little more "luxury", but also in very poor condition.

All keys are still at the reception.

In the same complex is also a game ryokan, onsen without. Nothing really special, it's just a bit odd to find a ryokan lost in a hotel of brick and cement.

It appears from the hotel and you reach the lake shore. Here fishermen cool!

We come across many places left on the road around the lake, in a playroom, but also two other hotels. Unfortunately, everything is locked or cadenacé, we can not visit.

That's how you find haikyos! In searching for ourselves, looking carefully around us, taking the back roads or suspicious locations, but primarily by a sense of purpose in using the book Nihon no Haikyo which gives small vague maps. I then helps me a lot of Google Maps (on iPhone) and GPS in the car (which is often not great, but helps give us the right direction once we found the place on Google Maps!). The visit is part of the fun!

We found the haikyo next day by getting lost on back roads behind the lake. A great little find!

Hiku (pull). Well yes, it works!

The entrance is really destroy, again moisture destroyed everything. Billiard balls ...

... for the beautiful pool in the lobby! I do not understand how they can abandon a place so completely, even leaving a big pool here ...

The hotel reception with a cash register IBM.

The kitchen is plunged into darkness. The windows covered with vegetation no longer let pass no light. Also, here is a little forward as a market in a swamp, water is everywhere.

Going up one floor and there is surprise. The rooms are in perfect condition! The floor, walls, ceilings are clean. There are also sheets "clean", although it is not recommended to roll with joy!

Television, of another generation, however, is in very good condition and still works reliably. Too bad there's no electricity!

The keys are all on the dashboard of the receipt.

Chewing gum, as for him, is slightly faded.

A calendar from 1996. The hotel is not so old, probably 14 years old, did not see many visitors since. We do not find in the book I mentioned earlier, which perhaps explains why the place has been rescued from the rebels who ransacked everything.

It's time to return to Tokyo, but first a little photo shoot at Lake Yamanaka with Mount Fuji in the background. The sight of the hotel was a lot worse than this.

And one last shot of fishermen cool;)