柏崎トルコ文化村【4Kドローン空撮】| Aerial view on Abandoned Kashiwazaki Turkey Culture Village

This is an aerial video of the theme park "Kashiwazaki Turkish Culture Village", which was opened in 1996 and closed in 2001. After restarting as a free park, it closed again in November 2004. Kashiwazaki Turkish Culture Village was a theme park located in Kashiwazaki City, Niigata Prefecture. On July 27, 1996, under the initiative of Ryutaro Omori, president of Niigata Central Bank, it opened as one of the three major financing projects alongside Niigata Russia Village and Fuji Gulliver Kingdom. It was built on a site of approximately 49,000 square meters, with a total construction cost of 4.5 billion yen, and features the Grand Bazaar, which recreates the streets of Istanbul, the Cave Show Hall, which is inspired by Cappadocia and offers belly dancing and cuisine, the Jewels Room, which displays turquoise, the Blue Restaurant, a Turkish restaurant, the Green Museum, which introduces cultural heritage, a statue of Artemis, and the Forest of Interaction, where visitors can interact with animals. In addition, a 5m-tall bronze statue of Kemal Ataturk, the father of the Turkish nation, was donated from Turkey and installed. The advertising copy at the time of the grand opening was "Dazzling Turkey, Landing." The Area Guide Niigata-Sado (Shobunsha, 14th edition published January 1998) states that "The bazaar, restaurants, and art museums are re-creations of Turkish townscapes, and the zone is filled with the spirit of Turkey." On July 24, 1999, the second theme park opened on the east side. It features a mosque-style craft experience workshop called "Center Dome," a restaurant called "Izmir," a flower garden, a "Trojan Horse" with a video hall at its base, a "Ruins Square" with a row of columns, and a semicircular "Amphitheater." It also has a "Children's Square," which features a "Noah's Ark" filled with animal goods, an aerial slide called "Flying Carpet," a mini train called "Orient Express," and a "Funny Bicycles" with a selection of unusual bicycles. Compared to the first theme park, which placed emphasis on culture, the second theme park has a stronger amusement element, and it is thought that the aim was to attract families by being popular with children. However, perhaps due to the increase in admission fees, the number of visitors did not increase. Furthermore, in October 1999, the main bank, Niigata Chuo Bank, went bankrupt, making it difficult to raise funds. In December 2001, all employees were fired and the park was forced to close. In July 2002, Kashiwazaki City purchased the facility and reopened it by leasing it free of charge to a new company run by local tourism operators. At this time, admission was also free. However, due to negative rumors caused by the Chuetsu earthquake that occurred in October 2004, the park closed again in November of the same year. The attractions in the "Chibikko Hiroba" area, the "Trojan Horse," and the second entrance were removed by around 2012. At the time of the closure, the Turkish Embassy proposed to "rebuild the cultural village under the management of the Turkish Chamber of Commerce in Japan," but this was not recognized by the mayor of Kashiwazaki, leading to trouble. After it closed, it was also used as a filming location for the movie "Mahou Sentai Magiranger THE MOVIE: The Bride of Infershia" (directed by Takemoto Noboru). In 2007, the wedding hall "Grand Court Le Prier" opened in the first theme park part of the former site. At that time, the multi-storey car park, which was far away and inconvenient, was demolished, and the "Flower Hill" area close to the facility was leveled and converted into a car park. However, just one month after opening, in July 2007, the Niigata Chuetsu Offshore Earthquake occurred, forcing the facility to close. In addition, the donated Ataturk statue was in danger of tipping and collapsing, so it was removed from its pedestal and left lying on its side. This was criticized as disrespectful, and the ownership and management of the statue became an issue. Eventually, the Nippon Foundation negotiated with the company that owned the statue, and the statue was restored and moved to Kushimoto Town, Wakayama Prefecture in May 2010. (Kushimoto Town has ties to Turkey due to the "Ertuğrul Disaster," in which villagers worked hard to rescue the Ottoman warship Ertuğrul when it was shipwrecked off the coast of the town in 1890.) The wedding hall later reopened, but closed at least by around 2016. In January 2015, five demolition workers were arrested for illegally dumping waste materials at the former parking lot site. Kashiwazaki Turkish Culture Village https://haikyo.info/s/1135.html #abandoned If you liked this video, then please give it a thumbs up, subscribe, share it with your friends. Haikyo Kensaku Chizu (Abandoned places map) https://haikyo.info/ Twitter   / haikyo_info