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Japanese haunted towns are towns legendarily inhabited by ghosts . These include Yōkai Street (officially known as Jōkyo Street or Taishōgun shopping street), in Kyoto and the Yōkaichi of Shiga Prefecture .
Built on the site of the former Sugamo Prison, where seven Japanese war criminals (including former Prime Minister Hideki Tojo) were hanged in 1948. Soviet spy Richard Sorge was also hanged in the prison in 1944. Since the prison's dismantlement and Sunshine 60's completion, there have been claims of supernatural sightings in and around the ...
Ghost towns in Japan. Pages in category "Ghost towns in Japan" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
The remote ghost town of Gamsutl in Dagestan, Russia. The following is an incomplete list of ghost towns, ... Hashima Island was a Japanese mining town from 1887 to ...
Various views from the ocean and from on the island, 2016. Hashima Island (端島, or simply Hashima, as -shima is a Japanese suffix for 'island'), commonly called Gunkanjima (軍艦島, meaning 'Battleship Island'), is a tiny abandoned island off Nagasaki, lying about 15 kilometres (8 nautical miles) from the centre of the city.
A Japanese hot spring town popular with tourists is limiting entry to daytrippers during the peak winter season in a bid to tackle overtourism.. Japan saw a record number of visitors last year ...
The Inunaki Village (Japanese: 犬鳴村, Hepburn: Inunaki-mura, lit. ' Howling Village ') is a Japanese urban legend dating back to the 1990s, about a supposed village in Fukuoka Prefecture, whose aggressive residents refuse to follow the rules of the Japanese constitution.
Japan's Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako on Friday visited towns in the north-central region of Noto to pray for victims of the deadly New Year's Day earthquake and console thousands of ...