By Chris Pleasance Gulliver's Travels is a classic novel which has inspired legions of schoolchildren and adults with its imaginative wit and satirical undertones. Less inspiring, however, is the abandoned Japanese theme park based on the 18th century book which was left to rot after closing down in 2001. The eerie centrepiece of the park is a 147ft statue of Gulliver himself being tied to the ground by the miniature Lilliputians, who he encounters during his first adventure. Gulliver's Kingdom theme park opened near Mount Fiji (pictured in the background) in 1997 and features a huge 146ft-long statue of Gulliver
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Gulliver's Kingdom theme park near Mount Fuji opened in 1997 but closed four years later
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The park failed to attract enough visitors, despite housing a 147ft-tall statue of Gulliver himself
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It is located close to Japan's biggest suicide hotspot, perhaps suggesting why few people came
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Since 2001 the park has been left to rot, and was photographed by 44-year-old Martin Lyle
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