Think your universities dormitory is bad? Well it can’t be as bad as Kyoto Universities Yoshida-ryo dormitory;

A peek inside the Kyoto University dormitory first built in 1913 that still houses student squatters for the ultra low price of ¥2,500 a month. No wonder it looks like this

It’s looking pretty bad, but thats assumed considering it’s been neglected for nearly 100 years. The students have been doing minor repairs to the structure and have added Ethernet cables. The univeristy has been planning to demolish this dormintory for quiet a while now so it might be comeing to an end soon;

The university has recently been fairly insistent on their plan to replace it with a new, safer structure, which fits in with their aggressive earthquake-proofing campaign. But the current administration seems unlikely to take extreme action along the lines of Tokyo University’s demolition of Komaba-ryo in 2001, when its residents were literally dragged out of the building by over 570 private security guards and university staff in the midst of a raging typhoon.

Originally only housing male undergraduates, Yoshida-ryo went coed in 1985, started accepting foreign students in 1990, and since 1991 has accepted any sort of Kyoto University affiliated student, including graduate students, with some current residents living there from their freshman year all the way through the end of graduate school.

Via CNNGo