Western Village (Nikko)
Japan /
Tochigi /
Imaichi /
Nikko
World
/ Japan
/ Tochigi
/ Imaichi
theme park, ruins, abandoned / shut down
Western Village is a quantum pocket of the Old West Disneyfied and transplanted wholesale from the American collective unconscious, replete with a $29 million replica Mount Rushmore, Western saloon, ghost house, jail, post office, shooting gallery, actual fake Rio Grande, and vast Mexican barrens.
It was built in 1975 and shut down in 2007, likely due to its remote location and the pull of other nearby parks like Disneyland sucking away its tourist base.
www.michaeljohngrist.com/2011/06/japans-abandoned-wild-...
It was built in 1975 and shut down in 2007, likely due to its remote location and the pull of other nearby parks like Disneyland sucking away its tourist base.
www.michaeljohngrist.com/2011/06/japans-abandoned-wild-...
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 36°46'19"N 139°42'38"E
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- Matsuo Sulphur Mine 369 km
- Tohoku Taro Mine 385 km
- Old Nanki-Shirahama Airport 525 km
- Former Japanese WWII Airbase Site 2467 km
- Former USAAF North Field Airbase 2483 km
- Abandoned runway (WW2 era) 2626 km
- Abandoned runway (WW2 era) 2627 km
- Old Colonia Airport 3041 km
- Nan Madol 3830 km
- Edo Wonderland Nikko Edomura 2.6 km
- Tobu World Square 4 km
- Nikko Kanaya Hotel 10 km
- Rinnō-ji temple (輪王寺) 10 km
- Futarasan Shrine 10 km
- Ryuokyo 10 km
- Tōshōgū shrine (東照宮) 10 km
- Nikko Botanical Garden 11 km
- Nikko Circuit 18 km
- Teikyo University 24 km