Felica Academy, Maebashi, Japan

The two videos below give us a great recent look at both the exterior and the interior of this well preserved Futuro. The videos were shared with us by Journalist and Creative Consultant Joanna Kawecki (@joannakawecki on Instagram); thanks Joanna! Check out Joanna’s Instagram feed for additional photos and video. Thanks Joanna!

This video, published to Youtube 123119 by Tansaku Morimori, includes exterior footage of this Futuro along with exterior and interior footage of the Karuizawa Futuro.

Michael Gakuran runs, among other websites, gakuran.com which he describes as «tell(ing) stories of (his) adventures, ruins (haikyo) explorations as well as writing about Japan and the Japanese culture».

On 052119 Michael published an excellent article on the two Japanese Futuro Houses (this one and the one in Karuizawa) titled «Space Oddity: Japan’s Lost Futuro House». We correspondewith Michael a little as he was researching the article and his immersion in the Japanese culture, ability to re

Back in 2011 Maniackers Design allowed us to share some 2009 images of this Futuro that they posted to Flickr. Recently they sent us an extensive set of photographs from that shoot (most of which were never added to Flickr) and some of these are displayed below. The photos include exterior shots, interior shots and a series of photos featuring a couple of «aliens». Our thanks to Maniackers Design for sharing these photos. These photos feature the Futuro but also include two different «aliens».

We have not been able to find any articles or references to this Futuro in English and our Japanese is about as good as our Orangutan and let us tell you our Orangutan is not too good. Google Translate is a great tool but even so it leaves you with text that is not always easy to understand. As far as we can tell it seems that this Futuro has been at the Felica Technical Academy since 2001. The Futuro appears to have either been the subject of a minor miracle and been maintained in mint conditio