Dutch photographer Maan Limburg's new book, 'The Lost World,' documents abandoned places around Japan. CNN Travel talks to the author about her journeys through the country.
But for Dutch photographer Maan Limburg, Japan is a series of rural landscapes punctuated by empty houses.
And that's not the only major force affecting Japan's landscape. Events like earthquakes, typhoons and theEnter the phenomenon of akiya, or ghost houses. Finding ephemera like calendars and newspapers can help Limburg figure out when a place was abandoned."Every village we got to, the people were like, 'What are you doing here? The nearest tourist attraction is 35 kilometers. We can send you there. We can draw you a map if you want to.' It was just really nice to see this different side of Japan," she says.
"As soon as Dutch people see you're actually interested, they will share a lot of information with you. That's something I also really found in Japan to be true," she says."It's one of the things I really enjoy in both countries that, if you have real interest in the people, suddenly they really share their life with you,"But of course not all countryside is the same, and that was reflected in the kinds of empty buildings she found.
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