Liminal space · Hokkaido, Japan

Chateraise Gateaux Kingdom Sapporo

Gateaux Kingdom Sapporo, a resort hotel that began life as the former Sapporo Terme. The corridors leading to the indoor pool and large public baths, and the area around the dining facilities, have gained a quiet reputation on social media for feeling intensely poolcore and liminal the moment the crowds thin out. The retro architecture surviving from the Terme era gives the place a nostalgic yet strangely unreal atmosphere.

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