Discover Japan’s Dark Side

English Version Gongenyama is a mountain of about 200 meters located at Japan’s far southwestern edge, in Nomomachi, Nagasaki City. It is also home to an o

English Version Mountains have appeared on Scary Japan before for good reason. Even though they are part of the same planet we live on, some places on Eart

English Version Saga Prefectural Forest Park in Saga City is known as a public green space, but local rumors also connect it to a darker history. Near the

English Version Aisaka Tunnel is a rumored haunted spot in Kodera, Kanzaki District, Hyogo Prefecture. According to local stories, cars sometimes stall whi

English Version In discussions of the theory that ancient Japanese and Jewish peoples may share a distant origin, one recurring claim involves the Lost Ten

Koyasan’s Candle Festival on August 13 transforms Okunoin’s path with 100,000 memorial candles, honoring the spirits in a luminous Buddhist ritual.

English Version The Doryodo Ruins in Yarimizu, Hachioji, Tokyo, are known in local ghost stories as a place where the sound of an elderly woman quietly sob

English Version One of the world’s most famous megalithic remains, sometimes discussed as an “out-of-place artifact,” is the group of Moai statues on Easte

English Version Shin-Noboribetsu Bridge is said to be known locally as a suicide spot. Located in Noboribetsu, Hokkaido, along Hokkaido Route 782, it is of

English Version The Rumor In Hakoshimizu, on the outskirts of Nagano City, there is said to have once been a house connected to a family suicide. According