Inside eerie abandoned Japanese hotel with thousand-Buddha statue that used to be religious

THIS is what inside Japan's largest abandoned resort looks like - fit with a thousand Buddha statues and overgrown hot springs.

The eerie pictures capture the remnants of what used to be a five-star, 1000-room hotel in the country's northern region of Ishikawa.

Also known as Kaga No Sato - or the Hachijo Royal - the resort opened in 1987 and was a religious-themed amusement park before it was torn down in 2005.

Drawing in thousands of tourists and locals every year the multi-million pound resort was once a bustling attraction with gilded temple halls and a golden pagoda.

Fascinating pictures shows one of the hotel's lobbies strewn with tattered wooden furniture, a keyboard - and even a rusting Cadillac.

The large empty rooms are covered with broken glass windows, worn curtains a