Discover Japan’s Dark Side

English Version Oishi Kannon is connected to a local legend about a young woman named Oishi, who is said to have been buried alive as a human sacrifice. Ac

English Version Meitsu Tunnel, located along Route 143 in Tojo, Chikuhoku Village, Higashichikuma District, Nagano Prefecture, is tied to a grim local rumo

English Version Before 1999, Nostradamus fever swept through Japan, and countless theories about the end of humanity were repeated on TV, in magazines, and

English Version Suimei Communal Cemetery is a cemetery located along Shikotsuko-dori in Chitose, Hokkaido. It is known in local ghost-spot circles for stor

English Version We have covered terrifying eruptions before, from superplumes to the possible catastrophic eruption of Yellowstone. Their scale is so far b

English Version SSS is a rumored haunted spot in Fuchaku, Onna Village, Okinawa, where visitors have reported unexplained phenomena such as seeing hallucin

English Version Sankakuten Observatory, also known as Wako Observatory, is a viewpoint located in Nishine, Kanegasaki Town, Isawa District, Iwate Prefectur

English Version The Okehazama Battlefield Legendary Site in Toyoake, Aichi, is known as a place connected to famous Sengoku-period warlords and has become

English Version In Tokushima Prefecture on Shikoku, there is a mountain long known as one of Japan’s more mysterious sacred places: Mount Tsurugi, or Tsuru

English Version In Tokiwa, Iiyama City, Nagano Prefecture, there is said to be the former site of a crematorium from a time when cars were still rare in Ja