Visiting and Abandoned Thatched-Roof Restaurant

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Cassiopeia Riding Park

with an old thatched-roof restaurant in the background, on the left

(photo from six years ago)

Six years ago, while on an exploratory scooter trip into the mountains (the kind of trip I now do by bicycle), I came across an abandoned restaurant next to the entrance of an equestrian park.

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Looks Inviting

This abandoned building did appear on my blog once, five and a half years ago in
“My Faux-Mat Photoshop Script is Out”, but
while other photos from that photogenic outing made it to my blog

(here,
here, and
here), and on that trip I “discovered”
the “Middle-of-Nowhere Sokushouji Temple”,
posting about this abandoned restaurant has remained on my to-do list.

It came to my mind last week while on a bicycle ride, I came around a curve expecting to find it, but instead I found this:

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The Same Location

last week

I shouldn't be surprised, considering the shape of the place six years ago. Let's take a look...

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Front Door is Open










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“Welcome”








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Spacious Interior








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Wall Art








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All the Trimmings








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September 1999








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Nice Ceiling








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Overgrown in the Back








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Little Guy Near the Road








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Holding an Ice-Cream Cone?

I'd love this for my garden (if I had a garden)









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Restaurant's Sign

or what was left of it

The problem with the cycling I'm doing now is that it both adds to my “want to post about” workload, but takes away from the
time to do it. For the time being, cycling often is winning over posting often. Maybe in the winter it'll flip and I'll get
caught up more.