La Rainbow Hotel

Escalator of the Rainbow Hotel
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Rainbow hotel was built during the 1990s when the Great Seto Bridge (瀬戸大橋) was completed. The original expected traffic of this bridge was 48,000 cars daily, but the actual traffic was only 6,000. Not hard to imagine why this hotel, although with a perfect view to the bridge is abandoned. The 150m viewing tower and graffiti inside were the biggest attractions here.

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  • 1990 – 1997
  • Nippon No Haikyo #152

La Rainbow Hotel, 7.3 out of 10 based on 9 ratings

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Tower - La Rainbow HotelTower of the Rainbow Hotel
Graffitis - La Rainbow HotelGraffitis of the Rainbow Hotel
Escalator - La Rainbow HotelEscalator of the Rainbow Hotel
Reception - La Rainbow HotelReception of the Rainbow Hotel
Demoniac Ring - La Rainbow HotelDemoniac Ring
Around The World - La Rainbow HotelAround The World
The Ring - La Rainbow HotelThe Ring
Welcome to The Ring - La Rainbow HotelWelcome To The Ring
Sky Tower Ring - La Rainbow HotelSky Tower Ring of the Rainbow Hotel
Lights - La Rainbow HotelLights at the La Rainbow Hotel
Totoro - La Rainbow HotelTotoro at the Rainbow Hotel

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  • http://ogijima.com/ David @ Ogijima

    Nice pics, but if it’s in Wakayama, I fail to see the relationship with the Great Seto Bridge. The bridge is a couple hundred kilometers away from Wakayama.

    • http://www.totorotimes.com/ Jordy Meow • Japan & Urbex

      This is actually Okayama… I am so sorry ><

      • http://ogijima.com/ David @ Ogijima

        OK. Now I understand.
        Still I’m not sure what made the promoters think that people would stop there, just because of the bridge (bridges are made to allow people to go places… places far from the bridge..)

  • Sined O’Cark

    わびさびだね！

    • http://www.totorotimes.com/ Jordy Meow • Totoro Times

      You really think so? That hotel? Mmm…

  • CTPP

    What an amazing monument to the fickleness of the tourist industry. Astounding architecture with an incredibly ambitious engineering attachment in the form of a sight seeing tower. I can see the execs getting drunk together and ccoking up these plans with way too much sake.

    • http://www.totorotimes.com/ Jordy Meow • Totoro Times

      This is really emblematic of what happened in the 90s. We are now very far from that crazy and ambitious Japan, full of dreams, working on a way to achieve them. They are still using too much sake but this time is to clean their despair and boredom… but sorry, I’m being exaggeratedly negative here ;)

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002535298234 Facebook User

    The hotel has been demolished in late 2012 / early 2013.

    • http://www.totorotimes.com/ Jordy Meow • Totoro Times

      Oh that’s a bad news! Do you have a photo of the place without the hotel? Would be interesting to see… thanks a lot for this info!