✳︎Book Title: YORODU ✳︎Issue Number: 1999 Special Extra Issue ✳︎Feature: Special Feature: The Magic of Ruins ✳︎Publisher: DANbo ✳︎Page Count: 145 pages, with obi (book band) ✳︎Size: A5 《Table of Contents》 ・Foreword "Ruins as New Real Estate Properties" by Hiroshi ARAMATA ・Ruins Tour of Japan 《Wakayama / Kobe / Nagasaki / Yokohama / Gunma / Saitama / Tokyo》 ・The Paradox of Ruins by Hiroshi TAKAYAMA ・A Trip to Three German Castles and a Ruin Tour of the Izu Peninsula ・Machida Shinobu Explores: A Visit to an Old Movie Theater in Arakawa Ward, Tokyo ・Essays: "On Hashima Island" Landing Report by Taro HOSOKAWA / Akika YAMAMOTO ・"Former Negishi Racecourse" / "Me and Ruins" by Tsuyoshi OZAWA ・Introduction to Ruin-Related Media / Films / Photo Books / Art / Music ・Special Appendix: Coffee Shop Special Issue ・Coffee Shops in Tokyo's Downtown / Coffee Shops in Kyoto ・Diary of a Tokyo Coffee Shop Tour ★Serializations: Yorozu Museum ① / Today's Shops ③ (Kintoto Bunko) The year this book was published, 1999, was just before or at the dawn of "ruins" being established as a subculture in Japan. It features writers who would later lead the boom (Hiroshi ARAMATA, Hiroshi TAKAYAMA, Shinobu MACHIDA), making it a highly valuable historical document that formed the foundation of current ruin appreciation. The publisher, "DANbo," was an editorial production company operating in a near-independent style at the time. Special extra issues were rarely reprinted, and pristine copies are seldom found on the market. Locations featured, such as the "Maya Kanko Hotel (Mayakan)" and the "Rotating Hot Spring Hotel in Wakayama," have since deteriorated significantly, or have already been demolished, sealed off, and are now inaccessible for entry or photography. The photographs, captured at the "moment when the remnants of the past still held their form" in the late 1990s, possess irreplaceable value as documentary records. ◉⤵︎Search Terms Below #Aorin Kogeisha #Coffee Shop Matches #Pure Coffee Shops Genki NUMATA Tokuju TABATA Shinobu MACHIDA #Hashima Island Nandaro AYASHIGERU 20th Century Public Bath Photo Collection Shoji ONUMA Garo Monthly Long-Established Coffee Shops #Hiroshi ARAMATA Ruins Tour of Japan Tour of Tokyo Downtown Coffee Shops Showa Retro Rhapsody Hot Spring Tour of Japan Setagaya Boroichi: 400 Years of History