For this episode we are still on the vulcanic subtropical island Hachijojima, also called the Hawaii of Japan.
Tourism decreased since Japanese people were allowed to travel worlwide, causing the biggest hotels to shut.
We visit the beautifully located Hachijo Royal Resort, which was once the biggest hotel in Japan.
We pack our stuff to spend the night here.
It looks like entrances have been closed recently. It will be hard to get inside.
Could you check that window?
It looks open because of the position of the handle.
I didn't expect that.
We're in.
Easier than expected.
-We just have to check if the guard is here.
We heard the same in Ikeshima.
Too bad we can't sleep on the balcony. 
It's freezing during the night.
Gotta search a room.
I hope there are some rooms in a mint condition.
We're inside right on time. Otherwise we had to use our flashlights and we could be spotted.
We only have seen really decayed rooms which look epic.
A ryokan style room.
This looks good !
This will be our room. You know...
Good to have two sides to look outside.
In case we hear or see something
Great
So cool to spend the night here.
-For free!
Hotels here are pretty expensive, 100+ dollar.
And here you have a good room aswell.
And we can see the front of the hotel.
If somebody comes by we immediately notice it, because here's the road to the main entrance.
I'm hungry.
-Let's cook. We brought pasta so we're provided.
Yeah, let's prepare to cook.
I'm excited !
We don't want to be disturbed ofcourse.
So we lock the door, use the other lock.
And nobody will disturb us tonight.
Good night mate.
I'm excited to explore the hotel, we haven't seen much of it.
We walked directly to this room and went to bed.
-It was pitchblack aswell.
Those rooms which we passed looked very promising.
Plants growing inside and a lot of decay.
Yesterday we noticed that the gimbal makes wierd sounds. Sorry for that, but we can't fix it.
We will fix it at home, there are no electronic shops on this island.
It's funny because you can see traditional ryokan rooms on the left and western looking rooms on the right.
You can see the flipflops.
Normally you would put these on, but since it's decaying and there are footsteps already we leave our shoes on.
The whole furniture is very low. A tea pot.
And in this closet you can find the stuff to sleep.
Thin matresses and blankets.
You pull it out and the living room gets converted into a bedroom.
It's a basic concept. Everything is made out of wood. There are sliding doors.
Those square lights are typical aswell.
Now we go to the opposite room, which looks European.
The European style is associated with luxury. The rooms are luxurious too, but I don't know if there are rooms left in a good condition.
Super decayed, we as urban explorers look for that. Pure decay and overgrown things.
Ferns are growing here, which you make think how they got here.
It really reminds me of another hotel which looks similar, same kind of furniture and decay.
Even the same decay on the ceiling. It's thin plasterwork which comes down pretty fast when it's humid.
I'm glad we didn't have to sleep here and found a decent room.
It's wierd. It's only 10 meters from the room we slept in.
Probably the roof is broken here and the water drips down.
So much decay.
-Yeah the building is beyond repair.
When it's so humid at lower floors you have  concrete rot.
They want to demolish this hotel which is the only option, but it's so expensive they just leave it decaying.
and hope it will collapse once.
-They can't simply demolish because of the asbestos.
Asbestos removal is very expensive.
Let's check other rooms.
2 meters further and you see a complete other hotel... marble.
And the paint is not peeling at all.
A really nice looking staircase and a big red carpet.
European style again.
This room looks slightly better.
The hotel was built in 1963 and closed and reopened a lot of times. It finally closed in 2006 and is decaying since.
And you can see what these years of abandonment have done to this building. Beyond repair.
The whole ceiling came down in this room.
The same will happen soon to the other rooms in this hall.
What will be left is a ruin.
These rooms have the best view.
Probably.
-Yeah on the corner.
What I recognized too is that the original rooms have tiny bathrooms and the European bathrooms are pretty big.
A cool tiny bath with a stunning view.
I think I never had such a cool view in a bathtub.
But so tiny.
Here's a mix. A traditional living room with beds.
The smell is terrible, like there's a dead animal lying here.
Here's the best view. There's seaview and from here you can see the volcano.
Locked.
Try the next.
-Locked again.
Most rooms are locked at this floor.
This one is open but...
ruined.
A concert hall.
It plays better than the one we saw yesterday.
It's strange to see the piano in such good condition compared to the rest of the room.
I think you could eat here and get entertained. There are low tables and chairs.
Evening entertainment.
Japanse geisha's.
-Lots of lights.
Japanese fluorescent tubes.
Everything is left, microphones,  audio equipment.
-Karaoke.
Probably not.
Still in a good condition.
I think about that evening we were the only one in a giant resort in Taiwan, doing Karaoke.
-Noo...
Normally the higher you go the more luxurious, also because of the view.
Check this.
Remember this from yesterday?
They put a screw inside the peephole.
What would be the price of a night here?
You can see European influences again.
French Baroque stuff.
In castles you always have two chandlers and a clock. It has bit of an Asian adaption.
You know what I mean right?
The room even has a fake fireplace. They took the effort to make it look more real with wood and a poke.
A private piano on the room, who would need that?
-It's a suite.
This room got emptied a bit.
It's almost a penthouse.
The bathroom is a bummer, very small.
A little more luxurious as the other traditional ones with stone and marble. No view.
A few nice details.
Now I see also all those ornaments on the ceiling.
Feels like exploring a castle.
I also missed the bar, which looks a bit strange.
Maybe they had their own butler.
No more liquor.
Nice lights.
-Shoddy ligths.
By far the most luxurious room we've seen.
Let's check if there are more here.
Just a big pile of mess.
Strange, they just had one room like this one. This part is just used to place sparefurniture for the rooms.
Because the hotel closed often, it had many names. Here I read Priscia resort in an old info book.
Still laying around here.
Here, Misawa resort. Another name.
Another info book.
Literally everything is left. Idon't get it.
I once talked to the owner of an abandoned theme park and he said the location has to die in a natural way.
That's really wierd to hear.
So much usable stuff is here.
Check all these bowls.
Fully stocked.
If I was the owner, I would empty the hotel today.
Explorers are the only people making an advantage with it.
Standard in Japanese kitchens, sushi boats. Not one but dozens.
I haven't eaten any good sushi this trip yet.
Time for good sushi.
Cooking on location. Pasta again.
What have you got? I think had pasta with curry.
Dead centipedes everywhere.
It tastes a lot better than yesterday.
We will explore the lower floors now, curious what we will find.
Ionic columns.
Huge chandlers. We're close to the lobby.
It's gigantic.
The resort has over 100 rooms.
An information board.
Anything interesting which we don't know yet?
-It WAS a karaoke bar which we were.
The checkin, we have to take care because this is the main entry.
The drawers with keys.
A lot of rooms.
A bar, probably one of the many.
This is the side with most decay.
They had a lot of Asahi here.
And another bar, water is dripping down here
This bar is in a bad shape, probably also because of vandalism.
We found a small door.
It just ends in a hall of the hotel.
The smell is terrible.
A lot of garbage, cans and adult stuff.
Somebody lived here for years.
A seperate part for men and women. There's probably a hot spring.
Should we behave and take the men's entrance.
Yep, a box for your stuff.
I didn't know this hotel had this wellness part.
A lot of stuff is made out of bamboo.
Too bad i'm bold.
Here there was natural hot spring water coming in.
A small sauna.
Really small for such big hotel.
A giftshop with some stuff left.
I thought this was a tamagotchi, but it's a slide mirror.
-Necklaces here.
Would be nice to find postcards of the hotel, how it looked like.
I only see cards of the island.
That's unique. The island had it's own parfume.
Exploring doesn't come to an end. We're going into another building which is connected.
Garden restaurant.
In a good shape.
Buffet style restaurant.
They covered and packed everything, hoping the hotel would reopen again.
No clue what we will see here.
The playroom, both for children and adults.
Play a game of snooker?
I wish we knew that yesterday.
It's stimulating for the dads. Here the kids could play and they could play snooker.
The stuffed animals still have price tags.
The child inside Frederik takes over.
A TV room.
A lot of fightings took place here to control the remote control.
We explore some side buildings and end our trip with a crewshot on the roof of the hotel.
Time to go home, the next adventure will be in another country.
