I Spent a Day at an Abandoned Japanese School | What Happened Here?
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- Escaping to the mountains of Okutama, Tokyo... there we found an entire abandoned Japanese school building waiting to be explored.
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Looks like a perfect setup to film a corpse party movie.
Hmmm thats a good idea
Oh nooo. Gib me relase date
That awful anime?
Yes
@@Wickery. but a great game, the anime I can agree is bad but the game is way better
All hail the protagonist seat. The heat stroke is the key to the main character level intelligence.
Bruh lmaoooo
is that why a disproportionate amount of them are idiots?
@@salleyne1112 why does this have a translation option?
@@turtlesaredifferentfromtor6745 on me everything has a translation option.
@@hirotakajiro4447 the translation option makes the lmaooo shorter
I love how Joey shows so much respect by actually asking before he explores like some abandoner's just rock up and expect no consequences.
prolly because there are still people using it so its only fair he asks for permission
My partner's grandmother's house is abandoned (still alive, just doesn't live there because it is basically condemnable) and it is right next door to our house. Some dumb girls hopped the fence that the county had us put around it to keep people out. They said they were going to "explore." The inside of the house is covered in black mold and the roof has caved in. Most of the flooring is completely unstable, especially the second floor which is where the front door is (the stairs at the front of the house lead up to it). Those girls could have seriously gotten hurt/sick if my partner and his mom didn't hear them hop the fence. People need to ask before they go somewhere that is abandoned and I'm glad Joey did here. (Although the school is in much better shape than the house I mentioned.)
@@cheyennewright2411 i have a question.. seeing as abandoned buildings are usually nobody's property in most countries, who are you normally supposed to ask if you can enter? asking for future reference because i'd totally make a movie as soon as i find like an abandoned mall or something...
@@12DAMDO Maybe contact the county/city office with the address and ask. They would have records on if anyone owns the property.
Unlike some people (looks at Logan Paul)...
12:42 Not only is it the tiniest piano. It’s also the most well hidden piano! At first I thought it was a small desk until the camera zoomed out and the label “Yamaha” is there. Whoever thought of this idea is a genius!😁😁
So Japanese schools back then were inclined on teaching students how to ride unicycles?
That's the most fascinating and weirdest fact you've mentioned no doubt.
Bro why are tou everywhere
Omg hii again!
just want to say hi
It's only fitting for me to comment on my twin's comment.
@@thijmen3036 shadup.
I feel insulted that an ABANDONED japanese school is a million times tidier and better managed than the schools in my country. Active schools, mind you...
To be fair there's no one there to dirty it.
That's because you usually clean up everything before you leave a place not just as a form of respect but also because that's just basic decency.
Especially public schools
Joey said that the villagers still use the other facilities so we can assume they still clean it and maybe still hopes that the school may open up again so they keep it clean
@@luuu5207 I know. That just proves my point: an abandoned school in Japan is treated far better and managed better than active schools in my country.
An abandoned school that they only use ocasionally every once in a while is better kept than any school I've seen here, even though they're used every day all day
The fact that it's so neat and tidy is haunting to me. Joey was right that it's frozen in time, as though waiting for the laughter of children to once again fill those hallways. It gives me a sense of sadness as well knowing that it's never going to happen and that school will remain frozen in time forever.
On a side note, Joey living that protag weeb life. xD Also, how dare you say you're not tall at 6'. Boi, I'm like 5'9.
69th Like... Yes baby 🤡
*Kenopsia.* The forlorn atmosphere of a place that is usually bustling with people but is now abandoned.
Joey: "Is that not the coolest looking shot right there?"
Camera: blur of light
What time?
@@dodonuts4573 4:25
@@crazyforswayzee thx
The downsides of face tracking autofocus.
[Malcolm in the Middle sunset scene, Hal alone without Francis at sunset hill.]
Imagine the nostalgia and heart ache if an adult who used to be a student here sees this video. I'd be so emotional seeing my school so preserved yet so lifeless at the same time
You explained so well
@super lazy dog same bro
@super lazy dog same bro
That is exactly how my mom felt. She used to go to a school near the center of the city where we live now, then she moved away for years, had me and my sister and we moved back a couple years later. When going to the city we'd cycle past the (then empty) building, and I remember my mom smiling a little and pointing at a half collapsed frame that used to be a tower on the building. "Look honey" we slowed our pace to see the building well "that's the tower I was in when your dad came to save me in a thunderstorm. He drove all the way here through horrible weather for me.. The tower was swaying and creaking back then"
She looked both sad and happy as she spoke about things that happened at that school while she was there, it was really sweet.
Woah why did this get this long
My school feels like a prison ngl cause every hour a co ordinatenator comes to every class and checks every class
Joey: 10:45 "I would know as a musician myself"
Me: So much volcano!
The best part about this video is I've been to a couple of these. At my last town in Iwate we visited one of the already closed school and one of the school I taught at (it was a 45 minute drive to teach an entire school of six students)closed and is newly abandoned. At my current school in Aomori we actually did our Undokai at the closed junior high school. The creepy thing is how they are always still stocked with things like it's just closed for the day. Pictures, magazines, equipment. Pretty much left where they were. As someone who does a lot of cooking, part of me always wants to just go in and take all the cooking equipment lol
May i ask why the schools abandoned?
@@yatogami5665 Not enough students to justify remaining open because families moved to cities with better job opportunities
Joey : "let's go to the ladies bathroom"
Camera guy : *heavy breathings*
wait Aki is a guy?
@@sirBrouwer yes
@@jenga-0072 write that down people. Aki is a guy. make it part of the trash taste lore.
@@sirBrouwer joey was gay all along. i cant believe it
@@sirBrouwer That's not aki you can check description
why does joey walk through corridors like he’s forgotten how to walk
My friend walks the same way. Even worse.
Its hard for a Monkey to walk on 2 legs ;)
Hardwood floor with just socks is uncomfortable to walk on and otherwise he had small slippers
@@emmanuelferguson ah yes the slippers he uses to explore an abandoned school at 3pm but be back in Kansas by 5pm
When
Damn. I love it when he makes videos like this one. Just exploring some place alone or with one or two friends. It gives such a sense of "There are so many places wherein other peoples' stories took place in." kinda vibe. Melancholic and captivating. A book with an indefinite end.
My middle school in the USA taught us how to ride unicycles. I never understood why, though now it’s clicked that the school was founded by Japanese immigrants. So that’s pretty cool!
I'm weirdly concerned about the dust that Joey's socks have picked up throughout the whole shoot.
He can wash it later tho
It is socks. wash for a bit & it's fine
@@HapPawhere Whaaaatt? My mom washed my socks then IT NEVER WORE OFF*
"Obviously there's multiple grade levels in unicycling."
Ah yes of course. Naturally
The feeling of emptyness,mystery and nostalgia you mentioned is usually linked to liminal spaces like this one and it's really fascinating
Seeing this old abandoned school I get a feeling like second hand nostalgia. Knowing what used to be there is so cool and melancholic at the same time
6:56 - Apparently, the Japanese Ministry of Education recommends learning unicycling to have students develop their balance and core strength, and that riding them urges elementary school-age children to learn to do things on their own.
Oh. Thank you.
Yeah i had a japanese friend and she would say that they were thought how to unicycle since they were kindergarten well atleast her in her town
That makes so much more sense now.
When I heard unicycle practice was part of the curriculum I was pretty freakin confused
As an American when you said unicycle the First thing I thought was "I thought Asians In general walked for core strength not go to school on a clown tire."
Then I read the rest of the comment and realized it was a way to make superior free will.
An off way to phrase this I know but watched aron go toe to toe with a creationist soo that's my mindset...
*Balance and strength are developed by learning regular cycling just fine.*
Joey is right. There is no any logical reason to learn unicycling. Not even a single one. But we love Japan because it is weird.
What really makes it for me is how well-maintained everything is. It feels like it's just waiting for children to return one day.
Exactly.. doesn't seem abandoned at all
Stoooop. The place dont need that sentimental its already abandoned
@@loly9929 What?
"Pripyat still breathes my friend."
@@loly9929 well is not realy abandoned the local still use it
This is one of those videos that causes me a longing for the experience of being a Japanese child growing up in a rural part of Japan. I find small towns fascinating, too. It's crazy to think about the different perspectives and lives people live all over the world. Does anyone else feel this way? Ever since I was a child I felt as if Japan was another home even though I've never been there.
Same. These schools just look a lot more fun to go to in the first place compared to those where i live wich just give me a very cold feeling compared to the warmness this school gives me
I mean, the place where the school is, it's amazing: the mountain, river, forest, in the middle of all the nature. If I had kids I would bring them to study here.
Also, just imagine being that 30 year old person coming back to your childhood school to see everything abandoned, it would be nostalgic and heatbreaking
You could take photos of this school, edit them and you basically have a set for a visual novel.
My exact thoughts
It look like Corpse Party
I agree or disagree want you but it's pretty good idea a
I literally did exactly that for that reason lol. I didn’t take enough though and Joey is too present in every shot. It’d be nice to visit and do that though
@@Ziziwai You could probably ( if you're good enough of an artist ) just edit him out and draw over
Abandoned Schools makes me sad... I always imagine the Memories of People walking around the building, papers being attached to the bulletin boards, and the effort to create the building for students to attend to. I wonder how the last person to abandon the school had felt saying Goodbye to their School and just abandoning all of the work that has been done to the school and everything else.
Does feel sad. The principal was likely the last to leave the sinking ship.
Kinda same. But for me the trigger point is abandoned malls. It really sets a sense of nostalgia for me, watching everything around it move on and yet the building is forced to froze in time. Being in abandoned places really gives you a sense of being forgotten
:(
@@then00brathalos yes
imagine being an alumnus of that school
coming back for reunion, only to find the school is abandoned
Piano: literally electronic
Joey: this thing looks ancient
This was really cool to watch. Also pulls at my heart strings. Just imagining that the empty halls used to be full of life and energy. Abandon buildings always have a sort of sadness to them for that reason, but a school especially. Thanks for sharing this experience Joey!
documentary joey: The dilapidated school gives an unspeakable melancholy.
Joey: ayy lmao look at this sink
Melancholy of Haruhi suzumiya
Ey! Lmao, that sink bruh
i love the fact that joey is very respectful with the school unlike most people who just act like idiots in abandon buildings
or anywhere in general like...u know who
I read this right when he dropped the class schedule
I'm 100% sure that's why no ghost was seen on the video
I wish I had grown up in a place like that, walking up the mountain to go to school, and sitting on the "protagonist's seat" looking out the window and seeing the trees and listening to the cicadas. It looks so beautiful.
11:55 this is when my dizzy brain realized Joe was not trying to dress up as a schoolboy by wearing a tie, but it was just a pattern on the shirt
Lmaooooo sameee
Joey: "Is that not the coolest looking shot?"
Me: Dunno, I can only see a couple gray and white blurs
I know! Camera man, when Joey says it’s a cool looking shot, you have to take the shot! Not just sit there with the camera out of focus and not moving to get a better shot😭😭😉
The shot is actually before Joey starts talking about it. Editing mishap perhaps.
@@abhiroopdas3232 no it wasnt editing mishaps
Ramenschnitzel those gray and white blurs are a sign of a ghostly apparition.
@@jpnlvr wait Aki is a man? who knew.
For an abandoned school, it looked extremely clean
More clean than most of the schools of my country 💀
Not a single soul lives there not even a single soul of a spider in the wall making a spider web
No, he mentioned that the people living there maybe using the building for community purposes
Now that's Japan.
As Joey has mentioned, the school has fully closed only five years prior to the filming of this video, in 2016. So not a lot of time to truly deteriorate. Let's see if Joey will do CZcams by the year 2031 and 2041 to check how much the state of the facility changes over the years.
9:25 I like how there just a chair right next to the classroom door, facing the wall, in front of the stairs , just for that one student that never does their homework
as nearing my graduation, seeing this video makes me feel young again. I still feel the heaviness of the notes and books at my back, that fresh smell of 6am in a summer day, running towards classroom, waiting for the teacher and the noise of kids singing the anthems. it's so nostalgic
My theory is that empty, almost creepy feeling you get in empty buildings, especially former public buildings is your brain noticing the lack of sound in a space that is normally alive with the sounds of activity. I work security and can tell you that the "feel" of a location that's filled with people vs completely empty and quiet is very noticeable. It's even more pronounced at night.
It’s eerie, we design these places for people to use them, and when they aren’t used it’s like the soul is missing from the building. Nature lacks this because it’s all living and breathing, it’s only in these man made structures
@@buildinasentry1046 yeah thats a word to describe that feeling. But nature is also creepy it sometimes plays on your mind where you almost feel like youre being watch everytime you're inside a forest etc.
They're called Liminal Spaces. Once filled with people and activity is now all empty and yet you still have that feeling of expecting something to happen. I live across my uni of 20k people which had no classes thanks to covid since last year and its creepy to see it so quiet.
OR, it's them spooky ghosts breathing behind your ear. Those cheeky buggers, always finding ways to troll the living.
It's like visiting a big store near its closing time. Past the hour every other shop is open, there's so few people in the store you feel alone in there since you can't see or mostly hear anyone else either
It feels so... Weird... And the cashiers just gotta sit there at the end of their shifts
Kinda feels like there should be a classroom of kids being taught by a yellow tentacle dude somewhere in this building.
It does have some vibes and it kinda feels sad as well remembering what happened in the last episodes :
I HV THE EXACT THOUGHT HAHA
E- classs
KORO-SENSEI 😭😭
And then they start target practicing on him
Joey: "Remnants of ancient technology."
Camera: immediately cuts to a bunch of desks
Well because of the pandemic you might as well consider it "remnants of ancient technology"
I found it funny how this old Japanese school appreciated music way more that anything in my country to this day lol
Joey: "I'm not exactly a tall person. I'm 6 foot on the dot."
Me at 5'4": "I hate it here."
Me at 5'2 : goodness gracious.
better start excercising and eating more if you're under 19, but if you're a girl that's average height
Me being literally 5 feet on the dot: :')
@@noninooo4879 Ahahaha im taller than you, im 5'1
@@bubaaaaaaaaa you can't tell me that a gluttonous pink blob is taller than me 😭😭😭
Hard to believe I started watching a guy named “The Anime Man” make light novel reviews with a chopper hat on the better half of a decade ago, and now he’s making these high caliber videos that rival a lot of TV productions. Love the old videos, love the new stuff, keep up the great work man.
Lmao
Ikr? I still remember watching his grey garden playthroughs, it's been cool to see his content grow
The *Anime Man* went from covering *light novels* to real life *documentaries* XD
i remember subscribing actually for his let's plays, he's grown so much as a creator
@@silver9489 or his other horror game play throughs angels of death and something about a castle im forgetting the full name
i took a tour of my own abandoned school some 13 years back. By that point it had already been abandoned in favor of a new sight location for some 8 odd years or so. and it felt much like this video. just going through the empty halls the gymnasium echoing silently and the memories of all the activities we did there from first through 6th grade was astounding and melancholic to say the least. miss those days of playing with my friends and getting hall passes to the library and dredding exams :D
1.) I want to know if the pool is still there off to the side in the woods. lol
2.) This is so relatable for me right now because my rural middle school was recently demolished. Before the demolition began, the community got to go back through it and all. The school was built in 1940 and was closed in 2009, the last year I was there ironically. So I got to revisit it and the last time I had set foot in it was 12 years ago. It had rarely been used in those 12 years so the aging was real. The school was ultimately around for 81 years.
Giving major 'Higurashi' vibes with how small the school is, it's in a small town and the cicadas :o
This is by far the most interaction I've gotten on a post in my 20yrs of being on the internet. :') hope everyone's having an awesome day!
Ya
I was just going to say that tooo!!!
That and Non Non Biyori vibes
@HAMZA BIN BUDI MAWARDI Moe np
I thought I was the only one, super Higurashi vibes coming from that place.
Dang, so that’s why no one chooses the seat near the window at the back of the classroom. It’s too dang hot there! So, when the new student (the protagonist, usually) arrives in class, the teacher has no choice but to make them sit there lol
Haha yes, scathing in summer and freezing in winter. I should know, I went to one of these schools way back when.
Ah yes, Joey is dressed as a quintessential Australian school kid - shirt token-tucked in so when a teacher told you to tuck your shirt in, you could argue that it already was.
I just wear a jacket, though people still complain about wearing a jacket sure it’s hot but it’s not against the rules. Studyladder bastards
I genuinely thought at first glance he had dressed up in some school outfit; the front of his shirt looks like a tie at first glance haha.
I wonder how many of these buildings are actually commissioned to be in films or TV shows. Cos this school looks like it could be a setting for Assassination Classroom, or any other school life anime.
It doesn’t matter if he’s going to an abandoned school, joey still reps the Jojo drip
Here polpo, have this banana
@@GeoDbD ah thank you welco.... wait what is thi...
Yea joey drip
3:10 theres something standing behind joey😱😱👻
@@invaderlum8600 What? A stand?!
At this point, everything reminds Joey of his grandmas place.
his grandmum's place is just an infinite building of every type of architecture in history
@@seiseiu facts
So here's the current Trash Taste lore:
Joey's grandmother's home was a nexus point between various liminal spaces.
Garnt has decided to use the path of pure degeneracy to reach enlightenment, starting a new religion in the process
Connor unlocked his Stand, which increases his skills in voice acting and Apex Legends while reducing his overall intelligence in a number of other areas.
Kaho is omnipresent.
Chris has undertaken a quest to find the most cursed love hotel, but his intentions are unknown.
And Sydney creeped out a bunch of movers by having a ton of adult toys lying around.
And everything is his MOST favourite
@@hunterfox6176 Lmaoooo wtf
“I dare someone to find a sink smaller then that”
(Takes out grandma’s old doll house with tiny bathroom set)
😎
It's such a pretty building, if I had a big family I'd totally wanna renovate it into a family home.
If you search on CZcams there's a family that did just that with an abandoned and sold-off American high school.
"Tiny sink!" Joey, buddy, elementary students are tiny people.
Those were teacher/guest toilet
And middle school kids
I wonder about the stories of places like these: someone made friends here theyve kept their whole life. Others their first enemies. Some have had their first kiss here. Others their first breakup. Did the teachers stay here, and slowly watch the school fade away? Could they bare the pain of it, or did they feel pride in their accomplishments? Did they leave to teach elsewhere? Did their students ever return? Did their students even think about them? I want to hear these stories, but it's all just a burning memory now.
that would be so interesting
I wonder if they have reunions and if they could let us film some of it. I'd love to see it.
that sound like a interesting idea
*A Burning Memory plays in the background*
I came to the comments for hahas, not to be sad :'D thinking abt that makes me a lil depressed abt how everything comes to an end
The sense of respect for property there is what makes an abandoned location look just like it's frozen on time, I can 100% assure that in my Country if a place like that would exist, it would have been robbed and dismantled to the very soil.
Grade 1 through 3 where I live in canada, we had indoor and outdoor shoes at school but it was your own you'd bring as a back to school supply, we'd line our outdoor shoes up along the wall outside the classroom, and had our indoor shoes on the bottom part of the cubby/shelf where your kitbag, hat, coat would hang above it on you hook with your name tag above it, we'd change back to our outdoor shoes for recess and going home. Actually, in canada a lot of people don't wear shoes indoors just like japan, but we don't use slippers just socks or bare foot and it depends on if the person your visiting's floor is dirty or not whether you do, it's a respect thing,
"do you want us to take our shoes off?"
"Sure, thanks!"
Or;
"do you want us to take our shoes off?"
"No that's fine, we usually wear our shoes inside."
I think I had light up sneakers lol
Joey: "I'm not exactly like a tall person. I'm 6 foot"
Me: *a 5'7 dude* "Okay dude"
He kind of is but not really coming from a 5'11 dude
I mean, im 16 and 5ft 6, most of my friends are 15 and about 7 of them are over 6ft 2 already.
Acc about 30% of my yr at school r over 6ft. Its kinda ridiculous
@@karnakua8054 I'm 20 and 5'7. Most of my friends are 5'11 and above. I suffer in agony
@@jirubyraiden9934 nah don't worry bro 5'7 is on the dot average
Bruh I'm 5'5. Then again, I'm a girl so I manage.
I love the fact that the voice over is just so serious, but on-camera joey is just pissing about and laughing about how small the sink is.
When joey said ''Uwabaki'' i got reminded of the fast and the furious Tokyo drift.
This is amazing! So glad you made this. You can see this in movies and anime, but it's always different in real life i think
Joey's outfit gives off the vibes of ''I'm about to jump onto the stage with my skatepunk band.'' On more serious note, abandoned buildings have always been fascinating to me, especially ones that are still somewhat in their original shape. There's some weird entertainment trying to see and figure out how it was used and how people lived/worked there.
I think he has a jojo reference on his shirt
@@jonh3141 kira yoshikages tie
The way Joey just has frames of him walking around is kinda funny and awkward. His stride is so…. rigid lol. You can tell he isn’t an actor or a TV personality, and I think it’s quite nice. Since that also comes with his unique quirks. Love the guy.
Joey's literally walking tippy toed
Yeah I thought the tone of this video was pretty mixed. Serious and sombre and then light hearted and comedic. Calling things from the 60s or something ancient was 🤨 but either way enjoyed watching the video! Haven't seen many of this style of video from Joey
@@LittleNyxFlower tbf it was 60 years ago, that's not a short time at all
@@Ohokk0 yeah for sure! It's old but not ancient
@@LittleNyxFlower considering for most schools that is ancient and he probably meant hyperbolic
Protagonist was built different having the most brutal seat.
And ofc the grand piano is the only functional one, no school horror is complete without one.
there's actually an abandoned house near my house. there's long blue-green fences surrounding it, and there's a small gap where you can see a house hidden inside a literal forest. everytime you pass by it, you can hear loud cricket sounds coming from it. i think i remember seeing a sign outside it a few years ago saying there was a bed bug infestation in it... definitely would NOT go inside the house
The last part definitely made me emotional. Just imagining those friendship that lasted for years in this school, the bond between the students, the club activities and especially the tears when graduation came. It made woke me up to reality that I am getting older. I imagined my younger days, just playing around at school without any stresses in life. Adulting sucks :(
Actually you normally kinda just stop caring about all that after awhile
The most astonishing thing I found is how wonderfully they treated this abandoned facility. Like you can still feel how squeaky clean the floors are, considering how old and rusty everything else looks. Usually you'd expect these places to be half broken down, dirty, inhabitable due to lack of care but here its almost good as new even if they're old.
Honestly, for a school from the 1970s, I don't find it that bad, considering this approximately had around only a hundred kids. Many places around the world still don't have half the facilities here.
I've seen abandoned buildings on CZcams that have been abandoned for less time and are practically falling down. This place is still in pretty good shape.
@@foxyfoxington2651 Shows you how well built they made the school.
He literally said they had classes there like 5 years ago… 😅
Also he mentioned that local still used that building for other activities.
he did say the villagers still use it sometimes but yeah it's really strong since it's that old
Really cool video Joey. Very different style and one that I really didn't think I'd like until I started watching.
It's a little sad, someone spent 8 years of their life, 8 years of their childhood in that building. Made their first friends, had their first crush, and went through life in that building. It's a little sad to see a place where the you can still feel the presence of the people who once roamed in that building. The simplicity of the building was somewhat charming to me, it reminded my of the temple I used to walk through when I was a child, resembling an older design and aesthetic. All the people who once walked through those halls, and how it's just empty now. It shows how time is undefeated, and how change can be one of the cruelest things in life
One thing I’ll never get over is how well the Japanese treat abandoned buildings (for the most part obviously)
I’m English and literally saw people smashing an abandoned homeless shelters windows in a few days ago
It may be abandoned, but Joey did say the building is still being used. So it not being completely abandoned could be 1 reason why.
@@frozenfoxgames5300 I think that's exactly what he meant tho. Nobody is being an ass and destroying things for fun or stealing for fun or something, they still seem to use it for community activities even though it's abandoned.
Well, it's abandoned as a school, but if it's being used, it's not really abandoned IMO...
@@koray3774 The abandoned love hotel from Chris' channel begs to differ.
Joey: " I'm not exactly like a tall person"
Also Joey: *i'M* *sIX* *FoOt*
Joey grew up in Australia where the average height for a man is 5feet 9inches. So by an Australian standard he isn't exactly a tall person.
I am highschooler and am 6'2
@@dio9796 adults work at schools too...
@@Seibar42 the average height of japan is 5'7
@@Seibar42 Other than the very far north regions of the planet where people where men commonly measured over 6 feet, so much so that 6 feet & a half aint even a rare sight, most parts of the world has guys commonly measuring somewhere between 5 feet 7 to 5 feet 10. 6 feet is considered tall in all these places, Australia included.
even through this screen i can feel all the emotions in the building, it makes me nostalgic
I like how Joey is teaching us Japanese for no reason.
Even though that Japanese school is old and abandoned, it's still better than my school lol
Yea ikr
tbh when Joey said this piano is ancient i got a shivers, or its me old or Joey never seen schools on europe...
@@WakaiQuketsuki I mean he is Australian so I don't think he has I know mine has changed a lot but it still has a list of students who died in WW1 and 2 on the wall in the hall
@@graypmk277 Japanese schools on the 90's really are ahead of their time
These documentary like videos are getting really addicting. At least for me.
it is really well edited like a nice TV documentary.
Ye same
Chris: 👀👀👀
Great video. I gives me feeling of my old school. It's crazy to think that just by rolling the clock back, you would be able to access the places you've been inside the school. In and odd way, it feels like intruding into people's past lives. It's amazing how it is preserved but lifeless at the same time. By the way, the gymnasium is huge, and perfect to have a Kendo championship, or any sport activity. You've been putting some great content. Keep up the good work.
I literally don’t have the words to describe how much I love content like this from Joey. It’s so professional and well done I stg I would PAY for this
Dont give him ideas i cant afford- xD
Last year, I taught at a Japanese school with about 47 students in the middle of nowhere. A lot of things were eerily similar. The look of the classrooms and hallways were almost identical, they still did unicycle practice and they still did moral education. The sinks looked similar, but they didn't have wires. I guess a lot of buildings that were built around the same time are still in use and have probably only been barely updated.
Was moral education mentioned in the video?
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@@Bendelsohn ah thanks
Joey: “Test tube”
Is holding a conical flask
Kekw
Come on mate..who gives a shit about science lab 😂
Great video. Really enjoyed everything about it. The locale, your insight, your narration and the way you described your emotions. Amazing content.
The editing, camera work and joey's storytelling show how much effort have been put into this video
I really enjoyed watching it
"Abandoned Japanese school" is cleaner than my still-active school. lol
I thought the same thing! XD
I am amazed how this school is so CLEAN for being abandoned too
Well its easier to clean because no one is using it. People are dirty and it requires other humans to clean up our filth
When joey said “do you know what this is?”, my mind was like protag seat
Word for word same lmao The moment mans went to the back right of the class toward the window, my mind just said "The protagonist seat"
We all thought that lol
thank you for making this video. this is so cool
As some one who grew up in a mediocre mexican school, I always envied the schools from american series and japanese anime, the gym particularly is something I didn't get to have while I was a kid, all we had was a Patio in the sun and a couple of trees where we would play soccer. Childhood frustration aside this video is amazing, the eerie aura from an abandoned school is something else.
At least you had the sun, I grew up with two pretty old European schools with the almost maze like layouts implicit in such old buildings.
I'd love to have grown up in sun and a Japanese style layout instead of a haunted gloomy maze!
This gives me a nostalgia that shouldn't exist in the first place, and the production quality 10/10!!
And the school looks like a typical shonen anime school you would see
More of a slice of life, romance or sports anime vibe
@@Whissya Yeah yeah exactly that vibes. i couldnt get the words to describe it. its like haikyuu! type of genre you know.typical school romance vibes
Lol me too
you guys are the worst type of weebs. of course it looks like a typical anime school, because they're based on Japanese schools? are you dense?
not to mention OP, you can't have a sense of nostalgia without actually having experienced it before. That's literally what the word means.
@@yuchi1664 and you’re calling it shonen? Lol
This must be even heavier for students who went to that school. Seeing the place you spent so much time in and made so many memories in, all abandoned and decrepit must be hard.
At least it's maintained on a basic level because some clubs meet there and town events are held there. But still though.
Exactly places like these always make me wonder what the last people who went to school with are doing now and if they ever think back
Amazing production quality bro!!
gosh, it was full of mystery and fun , you nailed it this time once again
my moms old elementary school is also no longer used for school, but other activity's (I think I did volley ball there) but i really still felt those same feelings of emptiness. and it was kinda weird to imagine it full of students. it was kinda funny though, as it was being used as a movie set while i was doing practice there. so that made it even more difficult to imagine real classes and students going there.
My university is fairly old (established in 1912 and the main buildings from back then are still there and my degree program actually uses the oldest one as kind of our home turf). This video and these comments made me realize how almost every school right now around the world is completely empty except for a few skeletal workforces keeping them clean. My high school was also used as a movie set very recently and the memories it brought back made me appreciate it more especially since it seemed a lot like the one Joey explored in the video, mountainous, isolated, and somewhat melancholic when empty.
We had a elementary school here from the early 1920's it is now a church actually, weird cause when funerals happen you have go through the old gym room where kids used to go for PE, although when weddings happen the gymnasium is used for reception and to 'cut the cake', basically after party.
I love these documentary style videos they take a lot of effort and they're absolutely stunning thanks Joey!
Agreed
I 100% agree
I need him to teach me how to do this! Since I live in Japan, being able to share it like this is my dream!!🥺🥺🥺 Joey, come to Kashima in Ibaraki, pweeeeease🥺🥺🥺
Nice shot Joey. Well done.
This gives me Another vibes and Ghost Hound vibes! So cool I love when you do videos like this they are always so well produced and interesting with still be respectful to where you are traveling and a nice sprinkle of Joey flare!
As soon as he said "I want to fulfill a weeb dream" my mind immediately went to the "anime protagonist seat". I am Indeed a filthy weeb
I can't believe Joey, the Anime Man, would have weeb subscribers. Absolutely disgusting.
@@dermathze700 lol
@@dermathze700 lol
I want to get a confession behind the school 😂
There's something so nostalgic inducing about seeing an abandoned building once full with kids in the middle of a green field. The way the sun shines into the classroom and the light breeze give it the perfect atmosphere for reminiscing about your childhood.
There’s a formerly abandoned college campus in a town near where I grew up that had that vibe.
Before the land was purchased and the buildings were restored anyway, now it’s a popular rental spot for family reunions and such
Awesome to see and learn the history of a place. Very cool that you got to visit that place
Cool video, thanks for not overdramatizing it!
the person who attended that school watching this:
"hey, the hole in the music room is still there"
The science teacher:I can’t believe one student kept spilling the acid on the floor.
The scariest part is Joey tucked in the front part of his shirt but not the back.
Lol
It was so you’d be more immersed in the video. In fact it wouldn’t be accurate otherwise.
Apparently it gives him drip points or something but I dunno man
@@Chakeis the classic duck tail
This was his drip, he explained it on his drip guide
Fantastic video right there bud
12:10
Joey: The kids gonna stay in the heat for 6-7hours per day!
Poor kids as me: We got used to it.