Pro-Tip: Ignore the police squad wearing ghillie suits hiding in the shrubbery.
If you come here to inaka and walk into any of the (unfortunately multiple) abandoned houses in the middle of the night, remember to bring some spare underwear just in case.
Reports are that the toilet area of most Hubs are haunted. You’re most likely to witness the manifestation of the paranormal around closing time. Reports of screams and moans seem most common with the occasional cries invoking the poor victim’s deity of choice. Victims often appear tired, winded, sweaty, and in a really vigorous encounter are covered in a sticky substance we suspect is ectoplasmic in origin.
But please remember to be respectful while visiting to witness these strange occurrences.
Go to a theme park. There aren’t haunted places or ghosts.
Shinagawa Immigration Office
Honestly? This time of year there are going to be haunted tours in places, or haunted houses. Just look for one of those and go. That way you’re having fun and not getting in trouble.
This is a difficult ask. Your question has a great amount of overlap with urbex photography, which has its own set of rules. One of those rules is that you don’t tell others where to find a spot, without some sort of exchange. That’s to prevent people coming there, attracting attention, messing some stuff up.
That said, if you can Google in Japanese, there are definitely some places, especially in inaka. You just need a car for most of them.
Mt. Osore, in Aomori Prefecture.
My wife used to work at LAVA (a hot yoga chain in Japan). There are a few locations here in Fukuoka that many employees claimed to be haunted, but they just appear to be hot yoga studios to most people. I doubt that is really exciting to check out though, unless you are into hot yoga. haha
You can’t get too close to it because the house is condemned, but I went here in January 2021:
Hachioji castle ruins..if you wanted a place where tens or hundreds of children are slit in the throats by their mother before they commit suicide by jumping on a rocky waterfall while the castle they called home is being burned down then you’re in the right place..
I appreciate all the replies, especially all the funny ones!!! Thank you all!
Toyama Park in Shinjuku and Sunshine 60 in Ikebukuro. I’ll let you look up the history.
Himeji Castle has a famous story about a young woman who was thrown down a well there and was purportedly haunted afterward.
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Tokyo has so many haunted places! I wish I could open a ghost walk business in Tokyo. Specially the places where the big national parks in a busy area are. If you look inside you’ll probably find a memorial of execution site or prisons. Too haunted to repurpose the land. Ikebukuro is dangerously haunted place in Tokyo. Specially where Sugamo prison, the ww2 criminal prison, was. Shibuya is also haunted in the same way. There was a military prison and people still see the ghosts of the young officers who were executed over the military coup.
Most of the population centers were bombed with incendiaries during WWII, so if there aren’t ghosts around every corner, then there aren’t any anywhere.
Oh, another good one is the Kozukappara Execution Grounds in Tokyo. Apparently over 200,000 people were executed there over the course of 200+ years.
Okunoin in Koyasan at night is pretty cool.
Nakagusuku Hotel in Okinawa has the reputation and stories of being haunted.
Hakone-yama
https://ghostmap.net/spottop.php I used to do a bunch of solo haunted spot explorations for fun prior to covid and this site was really helpful. Basically user reviewed spots based on several criteria. Got quite a few really creepy ones outta that. Though no ghosts unfortunately… who would’ve guessed…
Haunted places in Japan?!! You want to die, my friend!
Are you looking for 廃墟 spots or places specifically believed to be haunted?
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Any shrine after 27:00.
Bring an empty PET bottle.
Pro-Tip: Ignore the police squad wearing ghillie suits hiding in the shrubbery.
If you come here to inaka and walk into any of the (unfortunately multiple) abandoned houses in the middle of the night, remember to bring some spare underwear just in case.
Reports are that the toilet area of most Hubs are haunted. You’re most likely to witness the manifestation of the paranormal around closing time. Reports of screams and moans seem most common with the occasional cries invoking the poor victim’s deity of choice. Victims often appear tired, winded, sweaty, and in a really vigorous encounter are covered in a sticky substance we suspect is ectoplasmic in origin.
But please remember to be respectful while visiting to witness these strange occurrences.
Go to a theme park. There aren’t haunted places or ghosts.
Shinagawa Immigration Office
Honestly? This time of year there are going to be haunted tours in places, or haunted houses. Just look for one of those and go. That way you’re having fun and not getting in trouble.
I mean your location would help…
Here’s a list for Hyogo if you’re in Kansai: https://shiori-tabi.jp/posts/447
Edit: other prefectures
https://shiori-tabi.jp/tag/%E5%BF%83%E9%9C%8A%E3%82%B9%E3%83%9D%E3%83%83%E3%83%88%E3%83%BB%E5%BB%83%E5%A2%9F
This is a difficult ask. Your question has a great amount of overlap with urbex photography, which has its own set of rules. One of those rules is that you don’t tell others where to find a spot, without some sort of exchange. That’s to prevent people coming there, attracting attention, messing some stuff up.
That said, if you can Google in Japanese, there are definitely some places, especially in inaka. You just need a car for most of them.
Mt. Osore, in Aomori Prefecture.
My wife used to work at LAVA (a hot yoga chain in Japan). There are a few locations here in Fukuoka that many employees claimed to be haunted, but they just appear to be hot yoga studios to most people. I doubt that is really exciting to check out though, unless you are into hot yoga. haha
You can’t get too close to it because the house is condemned, but I went here in January 2021:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setagaya_family_murder
Hachioji castle ruins..if you wanted a place where tens or hundreds of children are slit in the throats by their mother before they commit suicide by jumping on a rocky waterfall while the castle they called home is being burned down then you’re in the right place..
I appreciate all the replies, especially all the funny ones!!! Thank you all!
Toyama Park in Shinjuku and Sunshine 60 in Ikebukuro. I’ll let you look up the history.
Himeji Castle has a famous story about a young woman who was thrown down a well there and was purportedly haunted afterward.
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Tokyo has so many haunted places! I wish I could open a ghost walk business in Tokyo.
Specially the places where the big national parks in a busy area are. If you look inside you’ll probably find a memorial of execution site or prisons. Too haunted to repurpose the land.
Ikebukuro is dangerously haunted place in Tokyo. Specially where Sugamo prison, the ww2 criminal prison, was.
Shibuya is also haunted in the same way. There was a military prison and people still see the ghosts of the young officers who were executed over the military coup.
Most of the population centers were bombed with incendiaries during WWII, so if there aren’t ghosts around every corner, then there aren’t any anywhere.
Okunoin Cemetery in Koya san Wakayama!
I’m just here to see where not to go. Cheers!
[Haunted Kiyotaki Tunnel](https://www.writersinkyoto.com/2021/03/haunted-kiyotaki-tunnel/) near Arashiyama, Kyoto.
Here is a list from Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_reportedly_haunted_locations_in_Japan
None. Ghosts aren’t real.
Oh, another good one is the Kozukappara Execution Grounds in Tokyo. Apparently over 200,000 people were executed there over the course of 200+ years.
Okunoin in Koyasan at night is pretty cool.
Nakagusuku Hotel in Okinawa has the reputation and stories of being haunted.
Hakone-yama
https://ghostmap.net/spottop.php
I used to do a bunch of solo haunted spot explorations for fun prior to covid and this site was really helpful. Basically user reviewed spots based on several criteria. Got quite a few really creepy ones outta that. Though no ghosts unfortunately… who would’ve guessed…
Haunted places in Japan?!! You want to die, my friend!
Are you looking for 廃墟 spots or places specifically believed to be haunted?
[The abandoned hotel on Maya-san is easy to access and really spooky.](https://offbeatjapan.org/maya-hotel/)
Any Pacific Ocean coastline in Tohoku. I hear it’s still hard getting a cab at night.