The second death of the dinosaurs

The Kyouryu Park (Dinosaur Park) in Kisarazu, Chiba Prefecture in Japan, was one of the projects which relied on the short living Dinosaur trend and the expected visitors coming from Tokyo using the Tokyo Bay Aqua-Line, a tunnel/bridge combination crossing Tokyo Bay. However, using the Aqua-Line used to be very expensive, so it never caught on and lots of businesses on the Chiba side never saw an increase of visitors and had to shut down their operations.

These photos are taken at the day of the closure of the Dinosaur Park, but fortunately they could sell most of the Dinosaurs to companies, individuals and the Teine Olympia amusement park in Sapporo, Hokkaido.

The former entrance of the park.

The last shot shows where the park used to be located…in the middle of nowhere. Right there at the parking lot outside the fence I found even a dead dog.