The Marugen Mansion is pure bubble-era excess. Marble floors stretch between classical statues, chandeliers hang over rooms that open onto a wide sea view, and gilded baroque furniture sits gathering dust where someone once lived very, very well. Whoever built this spared nothing, and then, at some point, simply walked away from all of it.

Places like this are the perfect portrait of Japan’s bubble years: money poured into marble and gold and a view of the ocean, then left to rot the moment the money ran out. Standing in the silence, with the light coming off the sea and the dust drifting through the chandeliers, it feels like the set of a film that stopped shooting decades ago.