Sunday, February 16, 2014

This Abandoned Japanese Theme Park Is The Strangest Place You'll See Today

Gulliver’s Kingdom theme park in Japan was left to ruin after the owners closed it down in 2001.

The surreal theme park was based on the novel Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift.

At the centre of the park lay a giant model of the novel’s titular character, Lemuel Gulliver, tied to the ground - a vivid imagining of the famous scene where he is captured by the tiny people of Lilliput.

At the centre of the park lay a giant model of the novel’s titular character, Lemuel Gulliver, tied to the ground - a vivid imagining of the famous scene where he is captured by the tiny people of Lilliput.

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The park was built next to Mount Fuji near Aokigahara - Japan’s famous ‘suicide forest’ - and close to the former headquarters of Aum Shinrikyo, the religious cult responsible for 13 deaths in the Tokyo sarin nerve gas attack of 1995.

The park was built next to Mount Fuji near Aokigahara - Japan’s famous ‘suicide forest’ - and close to the former headquarters of Aum Shinrikyo, the religious cult responsible for 13 deaths in the Tokyo sarin nerve gas attack of 1995.