I like visiting places that are supposed to be haunted. Hachioji castle ruins was pretty creepy, the path to the summit was damaged by floods and closed but I climbed it anyway. It was a foggy day and the place was all run-down and silent.
Legend has it that you can hear the flute of some noblewoman’s ghost. Thought I did for a minute, but it turned out to be some random woman practicing trombone.
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Easily the Shinagawa Regional Immigration Office
Shinjuku station.
[https://haikyo.info/](https://haikyo.info/)
The tunnels in Okinawa. Not good
Okinawa in general. Those Mofo spiders everywhere
Abandoned coal mining town hospital in the woods
The pedestrian tunnel in Kii-katsuura.
Abandoned hotel on the Oga Peninsula in Akita. Full of bats, among other things.
Bamboo forests in rural areas after dark. It’s so eerily silent yet there’s so much noise. Stuff slithering around, branches snapping in the distance… You can’t see anything other than vague silhouettes and even a headlight isn’t much help due to the density.
I love trekking and dark places so I thought it’d be nice to go on a twilight stroll through a small area I know well, timing my exit for nightfall.
Whoever spun the narrative that humans are apex predators hasn’t met me. I was scared out of my pants by a finch the size of a teacup.
I learnt not too long ago that you could go up Fushimi Inari at night. It’s well lit at most parts and I’d been up it a few times before during the day so it’s not too spooky but I got got a good story out of it
Last summer I went up Fushimi Inari at night alone. It was quiet and aside from a a handful of people almost completely empty. The only company I had was the sounds of crickets, running water and small things moving in the undergrowth
It was also hot AF. I was dumb and didn’t bring nearly bring enough water. About two thirds of the way up, I stop to check and yup, almost out. I swear out loud and say “I hope there’s a vending machine near here”
Down an unlit path I hadn’t seen, I hear a strange noise that gets my attention. As I look in that direction, I hear a whirr and a streetlight flickers on over a vending machine that quietly murmurs to life. I realised I was holding my breath
I mean, in the stillness the vibration of my voice or footsteps probably tripped a sensor right? Still, I got a couple of bottles, murmured a quick arigato with a quicker bow and went on my way XD Dropped a couple 5¥ in a shrine for it too
It is beautiful at night though so as long as you’re safe, (boar warnings everywhere) I reckon it’s worth doing. I’m MUCH more less likely to go back for the reason that later that night on my way down, I eagerly gave Japanese pleasantries to a Chinese man 😛 aaargh aaargh aaargh
Any shotengai in any small to medium sized city after everything closes at 7 pm.
Or for many of them, even during the day when 75% of the stores are permanently closed or vacant anyways.
[This place](http://www.google.com/maps/place/34.989111630242974+135.6368172648911) between Kyoto and Kameoka is said to be haunted. It’s got some old abandoned businesses there, but it didn’t feel creepy or anything last time I was there… except for the many Polaroid photos of horror-movie dolls someone had placed in the shrubs next to the buildings.
Someone also placed them at the entrance to the shrine at the end of the road. When I mentioned this to a villager that I met soon after (probably one of no more than a dozen that live in this area), she was shocked at the impropriety of it. So I imagine that the horror-movie-doll Polaroids are not there all the time.
Some photos are available [on this Strava activity](https://www.strava.com/activities/8007858992), FWIW.
I get scared of just staying at remote Airbnbs. Our house is like a beacon in the darkness that might attract someone or some thing.. and then the old places just give off Juon vibes. Fine in the daytime.
Omoshiroyama-Kōgen Station
I said this in another thread on sketchy place I’ve been.
It’s an abandoned ghost town ski field.
When I went there randomly, I was the only human there. I had to wait 2 hours for the next train.
In that time I saw.
*rusty and dangling chair lifts.
*abandoned vehicles
*collapsed buildings (I assume from snow in winter and no maintaining)
*derelict buildings.
*a pipe had exploded and was leaking water
*debrie and clutter inside the houses
And in Japan, not seeing a single person for 2 hours was unnerving.
It’s actually a very pretty area, just unnerving.
Driving through the mountains in the countryside late at night. Aside from your headlights, there are pretty much no other lights and you could be the only car driving for hours.
It would be Sendagaya Tunnel in the middle of the night for me
Copying from the “sketchy places” thread:
> Not “sketchy” but “unsettling”: Kushiro in Hokkaido. There are announcements blaring from about 6am until 10pm, but there’s no one out walking the streets. The “city” is something out of a post-apocalyptic movie; there should be people there, but there aren’t. Strangest place I’ve been in Japan, I think.
Dobutsuen mae
Walked 7 Km back to my apartment through rural Gifu between maybe 11pm and 2am. I had missed the last train that would take me back to my station so I had to trek it, phone battery dying.
It was pretty creepy, lots of dark areas, almost dead silent, decrepit houses, sheds, and warehouses. I thought I heard voices coming from one of them.
I visited the Miyazawa house in Setagaya two years ago.
Long ago, my boyfriend and I snuck up into the bamboo forest between Kiyomizudera and that love shrine. (I’ve heard they have a guard now.) Bamboo creaking, night falling, my boyfriend freaking out, and all I could think about is how bloody Buddhist sectarianism could get in the old days, and the Warring States Era (I was taking Japanese history at the time). Brrrr!
Nowhere is spooky because I am sane.
> I like visiting places that are supposed to be haunted.
Here are some spots in Tokyo: https://shiori-tabi.jp/posts/517
Sahimeyama shrine in Shimane. The rundown shrine and overgrown stone walls and abandoned mine shafts in the surrounding area make you think there used to be more to this place. Even in daytime it was eerie.
Not creepy per say but definitely unsettling: Nagoro village AKA the scarecrow village in Shikoku.
There as still people there as it is somewhat a tourist spot and need to be maintained but the whole setup inside the former school with the doll of the former inhabitant was creepy.
I had a motion-sensing Anpanman vending machine scare the living shit out of me one night at Seto Oohashi park if that counts
Yamanote line in rush hour.
Waking up in a cell in a random police station.