Septembner 8, 2013
Warehouse Kawasaki: Hong Kong's Infamous Kowloon Walled City Repica Aracade
Years ago, Kawasaki's Nisshin-chō was known as a run-down neighborhood, full of day-laborers and flophouses—much like Osaksa's Nishinari area.
But post-gentrification, Nisshin-chō has lost a lot of its crappy charm. Gone are the dilapidated tenements. Look around and you'll find shiny, new homes and buildings stretching as far as the eye can see—hold on a second.
What the heck is this nasty, garbage building doing here? Is this a remnant from the neighborhood's seedy past?
No, this rusty giant is Anata no Warehouse, a five-story entertainment complex run by the GEO Corporation. Each one of their fourteen locations has a different motif and Kawasaki's warehouse is modeled after the now-demolished Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong.
