The Most Haunted Places in Japan

The Most Haunted Places in Japan: 12 hand-picked locations. Each includes its story and GPS coordinates.

• 🏚️ Numahigashi Round Schoolhouse Hokkaido Deep in the mining forest, the circular school rots away, where children's voices are said to echo through the abandoned stairwell.
• 🛣️ SSS Curve Okinawa Beyond the triple S-curve above Fuchaku lies the old training ground of the shamans — where not even the island's own spirit-seers dare to go.
• 🌲 Hakkōda Mountains Aomori In the mountains where 199 soldiers froze to death in 1902, snow-laden columns are said to still march through the winter night.
• 🌲 Heiwa Falls Hokkaido At the 'Falls of Peace' on Sapporo's edge, restless spirits are said to gather around the trees as darkness falls.
• 🌉 Saikai Bridge Nagasaki Beneath the elegant steel arch churn the whirlpools of the Hario Strait — and those they swallow are said to rarely let go of the bridge.
• 🚇 Sendagaya Tunnel Tokyo The 1964 Olympic tunnel was cut straight beneath a temple graveyard — ever since, a woman is said to hang upside down from its ceiling.
• 🚇 Sennichimae Osaka On the grounds of an old execution site, the Sennichi Department Store burned in 1972 — 118 died, and the plot is said never to have gone quiet.
• 🌉 Yagiyama Bridge Miyagi Sendai's most feared bridge spans the Dragon's Mouth gorge, lined with barbed wire — and with stories of those who never made it across.
• ⚰️ Adashino Nenbutsu-ji Temple Kyoto The stone field is called Sai no Kawara — the riverbed of the dead, where children's souls pile stones forever and demons topple the towers again.
• ⛪ Akama Shrine Yamaguchi At the shrine guarding the Heike clan's graves, the blind monk Hōichi played for a court of the dead — and lost his ears.
• 🌉 Ichijō Modoribashi Bridge Kyoto At the 'Bridge of Returning', the dead have woken in their coffins and a demon seized a samurai by the hair — brides avoid it to this day.
• ⚰️ Mount Iimori Fukushima At dusk, young figures are glimpsed among the cedars on the hill — nineteen boys cut themselves open here believing the castle was burning.

FAQ

The Most Haunted Places in Japan — which places are included?

The list has 12 places, among them Numahigashi Round Schoolhouse, SSS Curve and Hakkōda Mountains.

Can you stay overnight at these places?

The places on the list are places you can visit; none of them can be booked for an overnight stay.

Where are these places?

You will find them in Japan.

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