Abandoned Y Junior High School (AKA M Village) / 廃Y中学校 (通称・ Mビレッジ) [Urbex Japan/日本の廃虚]

Y Junior High School was founded in 1950. In 1976 it closed down as it merged with another 6 junior high schools in the area to be replaced by a new single school. At the time of the merger there were a total of 521 registered students in the area. By 2024 that number had dropped to 31. Soon after its closure Y Junior High School was converted into a lodging facility named M Village managed by a local resort hotel business that went bankrupt in 2008. It continued operating under new management until probably the early 2010s. M Village offered accommodation to all sort of groups (company, university, etc), sport clubs and even orchestras holding training camps, seminars or just simply reunions. A 1995 TV commercial showed prices per night, including two meals, starting at 5000 yen.
🎥 Shot in November 2021
🎵 “m” (2016) by Gallery Six from the album "cmyk”
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[@すみこの畑チャンネル]

風呂まであるし、窓に映る景色も素晴らしいので、レトロなホテルで再生できそう‼️

[@saboruchan]

本当にそう。もったいないこんな立派な木造校舎。

[@MrCantStopTheRobot]

How many more of these will pop up and slowly go ボロボロ back into the Earth?
If bustling schools were a cultural trope for the past few decades, will those depictions feel dated, as abandoned schools become story settings into the future?

[@saboruchan]

@MrCantStopTheRobot “Bustling schools” can still be found, if over sensitive neighbors allow, mostly in urban areas. The countryside, on the hand, is doomed, it’s been so for a few good decades now. Some rural areas with pockets of population have made an effort to rehabilitate their unused schools turning them into community centers, exhibition halls, cafés, etc. Schools in more isolated locations have been pretty much left to rot. Mountainous Wakayama, for example, is filled with them.