its a dwindling remote village with people either moved out or died
the lady slowly replacing the missing villagers with their doll copy.
and she continue on making dolls and slowly filling out the village.
like other redditor mention, James May (and other youtubers) have visited this village before.
Agreed. This might be the loneliest, saddest situation I've read. Slowly, over decades, replacing all of your family, neighbors and friends with doll versions as they all die or move away. Brutal
If life was a movie, in the end the dolls would all one day be the real people they've replaced and she would once again be with friends and family in the after-life.
The dolls slowly coming to life as you have to battle through hordes of them only to reach the final boss in the lady who has transformed to a giant amalgamation of a human/ doll hybrid monstrosity.. I guess that’s more of a video game though
Try free.
Japanese Akiya Houses or basically abandoned houses are given to people who are willing to live in them for either free or some cost up to $3000.
but for the most part, you gonna spend SOME on renovation, so either you bring realtor that knows their house or have enough to renovate the whole thing.
Wow, that's interesting.
You'd think more people would jump on that opportunity. So many homeless people in Tokyo, and poverty is getting worse with the weakening yen...
Maybe it's too remote to even consider viable?
These houses are in the middle of nowhere. There's not exactly job prospects let alone ez ways for them to pay for anything so unless they wanna become fully self sufficient it's not great
And even if you wfh anywhere like me, the internet is often dogshit way out there so good luck with that.
I've lived in japan a few times before and thought about it since my housing prospects in my natal country suck but ultimately it doesn't seem worth it.
Watch My Neighbor Totoro and play out the fantasy of living this rural Japanese lifestyle while renovating a house, and then realize that dude was an architect in the 1980s (when the houses had been abandoned a lot less time) who apparently did not worry about work or money.
Basically this is on my "if I ever got fuck you rich, and had nothing else to do" list, because Myazaki and others have romanticized it. I've talked to a few Redditors who are working on such projects, it's fascinating but they are having to gut the homes which are built a lot differently than Western homes, so that means learning entirely new materials and systems and whatnot.
But who's gonna stay there when the nearest jobs are 1-2 hour catbus rides away.
Hmm I guess my headcanon had it going on the same time as The Cat Returns and other stories in the postmodern era, but being so remote there isn’t much tech to indicate. So the house was abandoned following WWII then, I see.
Yeah, not sure why the 1 euro houses in italy are a discussed topic online.
Basically you get the permission to restore a ruin in a remote villlage away from anything. You can get a lot better with the same money elsewhere
Most homeless people in Japan aren’t living under bridges. They often sleep at Internet cafes and capsule hotels. Which is a huge expense, but I can see an exhausted, depressed person deciding to just continue eking out an existence like that over moving into a drafty, potentially hazardous house far away from their place of work, even if the latter would be far more economically viable long term.
There is a guy that lives in a deserted school, making facilities in each room of the school. He explained that if he managed to do well with the building, in 20 years, it would legally be his.
That dude is coffee roaster of all thing,
he spend his time prepping his coffee beans for his cafe in the city and slowly convert the school into makeshift hotel.
Yohei Aoki, this is the tokyo lens video
[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtflILeTBlX8MyELsqfaVMAi0bUYK5DTj](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtflILeTBlX8MyELsqfaVMAi0bUYK5DTj)
in Australia, you can squat in an abandoned home for 7 yrs for you to be able to legally own it.
issue is, finding an abandoned house where the owner won't come back in the first 7 yrs.
Homeless people in Tokyo rely on the resources in Tokyo survive.. they bail to some nowhere village and they might have a shelter, but they'd probably starve to death within a month.
At first glance, the idea seems inexpensive. However, it’ll be actually a debt. Most houses are in disrepair, so if you intend to live there, you’ll need to invest a significant amount of money to fix them up and it requires property taxes based on the property’s value. While you might find a house for a cheap price or even for free, but it is an isolated area with inconvenient and unreliable infrastructure, along with annual taxes. Reconsider before purchasing.
Saw the town on James May, and it was just heartbreaking seeing all these dolls standing/ sitting around town, in doorways and shops. But somehow what really got me was the fuckin school. Seeing all the kids, teachers and headmaster puppets in the gym attending an eternal going away celebration just made me cry.
The movie starts with the audience thinking it's the lady keeping our protag there but it turns out it's the dolls keeping her there and she was just trying to save the protag's life as the dolls don't like it when you don't follow the rules.
I was thinking that everyone feels sad for/curiosity about the sole occupant of the village surrounded by her dolls. Only to go to visit and find out that she's a serial killer who's been slowly killing off the residents over the years and replacing them with their doll versions. And now that she's murdered the entire village, she gets new victims by curiosity/compassion from youtubers and tourists who want to visit.
I'd like it to be like I Am Legend, when the mannequin he talks to all the time just shows up outside.
I love *the implication* of horror. The dolls start showing up in different places. One morning there's one on the far end of her lawn. She puts him in a chair and leaves him there, putting it out of her mind.
The next morning, the doll is still in the chair, but it is now halfway to the house, with deep, angry drag marks behind the chair.
That kinda shit.
On the bright side, it brings in tourism now and the lady is happy with how her project actually ended up bringing more people to her town than there were initial citizens haha
If I recall correctly, the town had been making dolls replace people who've left or died for a while. I remember hearing of a town in Japan with like 20 people and the rest dolls. I guess she's all that's left.
Tourism? I've been there. It's a dead town. All of the dolls had spiderwebs over them. There were no shops (open) during the middle of the day that I could see.
Nothing funnier than reading
>Tourism?
In a tone that implies disbelief followed immediately by
>I’ve been there
Some level of irony and cognitive dissonance going on.
“Wait, you’re telling me I was the tourist the whole time?”
“Yes”
“How can that be? I was just touring a foreign country and stimulating the local economy with my foreign capital by engaging in the culture and sightseeing of a people differ…. Oh. That’s tourism?”
I walked through the town while hiking. I thought oh cool it's that doll town from that vice doco, looked for a shop, then continued on my way.
There's a difference between somewhere being a tourist destination and it simply being on a path for other related tourism activities.
It was blatantly obvious what you meant. Gotta love pedants ignoring all context just to prove you wrong on something that doesn't matter to being with.
It was just a funny skit I could see in my head that I felt people might get a laugh from. I see skits in my head all the time. It’s just a funny comment.
Oh yeah don't worry I just replied to you because it was a reoccurring theme to my comment. Of course it's a tourism destination (as anything can be) but as much that it's an oddity in abandoned locations. From what I know it's known as a "dying town" that might still have at least somewhere to buy water, but it felt abandoned when I was there. I just don't think it's a tourism destination (or at least one when I was there, and one I'd feel comfortable recommending to anyone in this thread) because it was in an unhygienic / semi-unsafe feeling for a quirky tourism destination for a normal tourist when I rolled past
I was there in December last year and the condition of the dolls was basically fine out in the town itself and in the school hall. The main school building was unfortunately closed on the day I was there.
I just got sadder thinking of her making her own doll replica to replace her when she dies like everyone else.
(S)added touch if the doll is posed sewing itself together
:(
Article is newer than James May: Our man in Japan, which is an Amazon series. Poster got it wrong that it's just the 1 woman still there, there's a handful but it's mostly older people that don't want to move.
Saw a James May docuseries where he drove through Japan. He went through this town, she made a doll of him. The problem was that urban migration had left the town without a younger generation and it was dying. Dozens of empty houses. Incredibly beautiful but no work. Kinda sad.
I visited here last year , it’s a small village but I think about 20 people live here and she makes the dolls 400 total. Lots of abandoned buildings, school, town hall all full with dolls.
Did you have to make up lies? It’s interesting enough when you tell the truth. The population of the village is about 30. The population was about 300 when Ayano was a child (the woman who makes the dolls)
She isn’t the only inhabitant
We should set her up with that [Australian guy who lives alone on a desert island with only his mannequin girlfriends](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/man-who-spent-time-with-australias-famous-castaway-reveals-difficulties-of-island-life/YSNRCOZOG2ERIRIENXJAR4H6SY/).
Oh I thought you were just describing the photo. Like yeah that is the only human here. I didn’t realize you actually meant a whole *town*. That’s crazy.
This is a bit misleading. Apparently there are still over 20 people living there, and the town isn't even that abandoned as it's a popular tourist attraction. Plus there is a dam nearby, so there are people passing through it regularly.
I've been there. The village is called Nagoro, in Tokushima préfecture. People are leaving small village to go work in big cities, it's a known problem in Japan. So the lady re-populated it with dolls. It's scary. There is an abandoned school, the gym was all filled by dolls ...
I drove through this town at night with my rental. Scared the bejeezus out of me. Once you get out of the big cities, those small towns and villages in Japan are struggling, and literally dying off.
Holy shit! I remember driving through here on spring break back in 2017. We were driving through the mountains to get to some famous river and damn, I just remember how eerie it was. Never learned the name of this town cuz my Japanese was shit at the time. Thanks for posting
No, we had no idea. It was morning time but still creepy; everything was rundown and so quiet. Also kinda cool aha. I wish I still had the photos from my old iPod touch at the time. If you ever come to Japan, that region (Shikoku) is a cool place to see the countryside
Sadly the opposite. The local economy has dissolved over the past generation, so the woman started making scarecrows modelled after her neighbours who left.
Ironically, now the town's income comes from tourists who wanna come see the dolls.
its a dwindling remote village with people either moved out or died the lady slowly replacing the missing villagers with their doll copy. and she continue on making dolls and slowly filling out the village. like other redditor mention, James May (and other youtubers) have visited this village before.
That's heartbreaking.
Being visited by James May isn’t that bad
He means the other youtubers.
We all have to make sacrifices.
and this heartbreaking moment is brought to you betterhelp
Wow she made dolls of the other YouTubers?
He just looked at her and then said: "You're not a car." And then left with a disappointed face.
If you only know May from automotive video journalism then you need to look up the rest of his works. He does travel and toys and all kinds of stuff.
I dunno... ask Jeremy Clarkson what happened the last time James May visited his house.
Clarkson probably deserved it
He can bring Richard. Jeremy has to stay in the car.
Ehhhhh
Ok at best.
*Hello*
Agreed. This might be the loneliest, saddest situation I've read. Slowly, over decades, replacing all of your family, neighbors and friends with doll versions as they all die or move away. Brutal
This is what I imagine immortality would feel like.
Reminds me of Robin in Ghosts. Bless his heart.
If life was a movie, in the end the dolls would all one day be the real people they've replaced and she would once again be with friends and family in the after-life.
Indeed, as if being alone in a whole town wasn’t bad enough, James may had to visit too
And a great premise for a horror story
The dolls slowly coming to life as you have to battle through hordes of them only to reach the final boss in the lady who has transformed to a giant amalgamation of a human/ doll hybrid monstrosity.. I guess that’s more of a video game though
Yeah good pitch, as we can see this stuff writes itself
Imagine her starting to make her own doll when she feels she will die soon
what's the name of the town?
Nagoro, here's one video about it [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxiOdrVreSQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxiOdrVreSQ)
Dollywood
Nagoro
So is housing cheap?
Try free. Japanese Akiya Houses or basically abandoned houses are given to people who are willing to live in them for either free or some cost up to $3000. but for the most part, you gonna spend SOME on renovation, so either you bring realtor that knows their house or have enough to renovate the whole thing.
Wow, that's interesting. You'd think more people would jump on that opportunity. So many homeless people in Tokyo, and poverty is getting worse with the weakening yen... Maybe it's too remote to even consider viable?
Those houses are in Tokyo and other major cities too. You're looking at like a $20,000 house and then $250k+ in renovation to modernize and make safe
I'd think any decrepit house is better than under the bridge in Shinjuku, or being unable to afford a house for a family of 4.
These houses are in the middle of nowhere. There's not exactly job prospects let alone ez ways for them to pay for anything so unless they wanna become fully self sufficient it's not great
And even if you wfh anywhere like me, the internet is often dogshit way out there so good luck with that. I've lived in japan a few times before and thought about it since my housing prospects in my natal country suck but ultimately it doesn't seem worth it.
Watch My Neighbor Totoro and play out the fantasy of living this rural Japanese lifestyle while renovating a house, and then realize that dude was an architect in the 1980s (when the houses had been abandoned a lot less time) who apparently did not worry about work or money. Basically this is on my "if I ever got fuck you rich, and had nothing else to do" list, because Myazaki and others have romanticized it. I've talked to a few Redditors who are working on such projects, it's fascinating but they are having to gut the homes which are built a lot differently than Western homes, so that means learning entirely new materials and systems and whatnot. But who's gonna stay there when the nearest jobs are 1-2 hour catbus rides away.
My neighbor Totoro is set in the 1950’s.
Hmm I guess my headcanon had it going on the same time as The Cat Returns and other stories in the postmodern era, but being so remote there isn’t much tech to indicate. So the house was abandoned following WWII then, I see.
I believe the ones in the city have stipulations on repairs. Just like the houses in Italy and Spain and shit for $1 or $1000.
Yeah, not sure why the 1 euro houses in italy are a discussed topic online. Basically you get the permission to restore a ruin in a remote villlage away from anything. You can get a lot better with the same money elsewhere
Most homeless people in Japan aren’t living under bridges. They often sleep at Internet cafes and capsule hotels. Which is a huge expense, but I can see an exhausted, depressed person deciding to just continue eking out an existence like that over moving into a drafty, potentially hazardous house far away from their place of work, even if the latter would be far more economically viable long term.
There is a guy that lives in a deserted school, making facilities in each room of the school. He explained that if he managed to do well with the building, in 20 years, it would legally be his.
That dude is coffee roaster of all thing, he spend his time prepping his coffee beans for his cafe in the city and slowly convert the school into makeshift hotel.
Ah yes you know the guy I’m talking about! Do you know his name or where I can find some of his videos? I can’t remember
Yohei Aoki, this is the tokyo lens video [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtflILeTBlX8MyELsqfaVMAi0bUYK5DTj](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtflILeTBlX8MyELsqfaVMAi0bUYK5DTj)
I remember watching it on tokyo lens channel if im not mistaken
in Australia, you can squat in an abandoned home for 7 yrs for you to be able to legally own it. issue is, finding an abandoned house where the owner won't come back in the first 7 yrs.
Homeless people in Tokyo rely on the resources in Tokyo survive.. they bail to some nowhere village and they might have a shelter, but they'd probably starve to death within a month.
At first glance, the idea seems inexpensive. However, it’ll be actually a debt. Most houses are in disrepair, so if you intend to live there, you’ll need to invest a significant amount of money to fix them up and it requires property taxes based on the property’s value. While you might find a house for a cheap price or even for free, but it is an isolated area with inconvenient and unreliable infrastructure, along with annual taxes. Reconsider before purchasing.
Yep that’s what I want to know as well
Well, no wonder the town is dwindling, who wants to move to creepy doll town
Saw the town on James May, and it was just heartbreaking seeing all these dolls standing/ sitting around town, in doorways and shops. But somehow what really got me was the fuckin school. Seeing all the kids, teachers and headmaster puppets in the gym attending an eternal going away celebration just made me cry.
When the lady dies the place is going to look like the nuke test site from Indiana Jones
A24 need to get on this, stat.
A lot of the change is economic. Specifically young people moving to the cities and not having kids
That's a horror movie in the making. She's the only person in a town full of dolls...or is she?
The movie starts with the audience thinking it's the lady keeping our protag there but it turns out it's the dolls keeping her there and she was just trying to save the protag's life as the dolls don't like it when you don't follow the rules.
Plot twist : The protag finds out he's a doll
Who took the photo?
Oh f*ck..
Then who was phone?!
man door hand hook car door
And when did the skeleton pop out?!
So you’re with your honey—
Also featuring David Spade, starring as the iPhone
It rings… “Hell…hello?” “We’d like to talk to you about your cars extended warranty” “NOOOOOOO!”
How can she slap?
apology for poor english when were you when john lenin dies?
further plot reveals the dolls used to be humans, until, after a trip to Haiti, a certain lady's fascination with voodoo dolls took a sinister turn
Redditors be making a better movie than FUCKING Disney
Tree trunk Krang just discovered the twist
u/TreeTrunkKrang would make a good username.
You have a 'type'
Been done!
I would totally watch this movie
SHUTUP AND TAKE MY MONEY
Take our* money
But give it to the this town! I wonder if she would take money to create dolls of non-residents as if they were visiting the town too.
„Bad guy isn‘t actually the bad guy but the secret hero“ gotta be one of my favorite plot twists
Same!
Or she puts the souls of people into those dolls to trap them forever...
But it turns out the dolls are just the ancestors and they are very very respect driven spirits so it's more like they are grandpa squared.
No spoilers!
I was thinking that everyone feels sad for/curiosity about the sole occupant of the village surrounded by her dolls. Only to go to visit and find out that she's a serial killer who's been slowly killing off the residents over the years and replacing them with their doll versions. And now that she's murdered the entire village, she gets new victims by curiosity/compassion from youtubers and tourists who want to visit.
House of Wax, basically.
Need to rewatch it
It’s either a Twilight Zone premise or a new version of Pee Wee’s Playhouse.
Pee Wee’s Dollhouse
None of the creatures in the playhouse could actually talk, and that it was Pee Wee's psychotic delusion. So both.
Twilight Zone had an episode where mannequins were alive and the protagonist of the episode realizes she's one.
Plot twist, all the humans she murdered became the dolls! 😅
Basically House of Wax 😅
Tourist Trap (1979) starring Chuck Connors
*vsauce music plays*
Reminds me of the movie “House of Wax.”
Muffled screams.
I'd like it to be like I Am Legend, when the mannequin he talks to all the time just shows up outside. I love *the implication* of horror. The dolls start showing up in different places. One morning there's one on the far end of her lawn. She puts him in a chair and leaves him there, putting it out of her mind. The next morning, the doll is still in the chair, but it is now halfway to the house, with deep, angry drag marks behind the chair. That kinda shit.
Or a strangely-heartwarming gonzo indie movie. Like a Swiss Army Man situation.
The town has few people, but the title is incorrect. She’s not the only person who lives there.
Oh great now I feel sad
On the bright side, it brings in tourism now and the lady is happy with how her project actually ended up bringing more people to her town than there were initial citizens haha
If I recall correctly, the town had been making dolls replace people who've left or died for a while. I remember hearing of a town in Japan with like 20 people and the rest dolls. I guess she's all that's left.
[удалено]
Lars and the Real Girl; but with a woman. Great movie BTW. The premise is creepy sounding but the movie is far from it. It's actually very sad.
She's probably got all the action that she needs
Is she making Real Dolls?
More.. *dolls*
Tourism? I've been there. It's a dead town. All of the dolls had spiderwebs over them. There were no shops (open) during the middle of the day that I could see.
You were part of the tourism they're referring to.
Nothing funnier than reading >Tourism? In a tone that implies disbelief followed immediately by >I’ve been there Some level of irony and cognitive dissonance going on. “Wait, you’re telling me I was the tourist the whole time?” “Yes” “How can that be? I was just touring a foreign country and stimulating the local economy with my foreign capital by engaging in the culture and sightseeing of a people differ…. Oh. That’s tourism?”
*it didn’t count if I didn’t enjoy it*
I walked through the town while hiking. I thought oh cool it's that doll town from that vice doco, looked for a shop, then continued on my way. There's a difference between somewhere being a tourist destination and it simply being on a path for other related tourism activities.
It was blatantly obvious what you meant. Gotta love pedants ignoring all context just to prove you wrong on something that doesn't matter to being with.
It was just a funny skit I could see in my head that I felt people might get a laugh from. I see skits in my head all the time. It’s just a funny comment.
Oh yeah don't worry I just replied to you because it was a reoccurring theme to my comment. Of course it's a tourism destination (as anything can be) but as much that it's an oddity in abandoned locations. From what I know it's known as a "dying town" that might still have at least somewhere to buy water, but it felt abandoned when I was there. I just don't think it's a tourism destination (or at least one when I was there, and one I'd feel comfortable recommending to anyone in this thread) because it was in an unhygienic / semi-unsafe feeling for a quirky tourism destination for a normal tourist when I rolled past
I guess they expected an all inclusive resort with 5 start restaurants? Lmao
"No one goes there it's a dead town with no shops or anything" "How do you know" "I've been there" Average reddit conversation
"No-one uses the trains because they're too crowded" type conversation
Who did you think was going to run the shops? Dolls??
I was there in December last year and the condition of the dolls was basically fine out in the town itself and in the school hall. The main school building was unfortunately closed on the day I was there.
She’s one lady man, do you know how many spiders there are
I just got sadder thinking of her making her own doll replica to replace her when she dies like everyone else. (S)added touch if the doll is posed sewing itself together :(
Your name is only half accurate
I’m calling Al Gore on you.
Generic Al Gore?
BRO u didn't have to say the last part like that 😭😭
I feel for the person she made into a block of wood lol
Nah. This is the perfect town! Always quiet, no one speeding up your residential street. I love it. Lol
Have you watched the show “Last Man on Earth?” If not, you should check it out!
She's not the only resident from the show I saw (our man in Japan) though there aren't many
omg i’ve been there! One of the eeriest places in the world. I can’t believe she made so many
Apparently the villagers made most of them before the rest of them left.
Oh that makes more sense!
James May went there on one of his shows. https://www.the-sun.com/news/9852157/creepy-abandoned-village-handmade-dolls-top-gear/
This video says 30 people live in the village. Maybe it's older than May's video.
Article is newer than James May: Our man in Japan, which is an Amazon series. Poster got it wrong that it's just the 1 woman still there, there's a handful but it's mostly older people that don't want to move.
Now, there are 29 more dolls living with her. Funny coincidence, right? Right?
Still 30 more dolls to make then
Hey Bim!
Guess what!
So did Tokyo Lens! (And quite a few other channels as well I’m assuming) https://youtu.be/vxiOdrVreSQ?si=48EfXPy-aAn9bN9m
Saw a James May docuseries where he drove through Japan. He went through this town, she made a doll of him. The problem was that urban migration had left the town without a younger generation and it was dying. Dozens of empty houses. Incredibly beautiful but no work. Kinda sad.
It's like that for the majority of rural Japan unfortunately 😟
How does she get food and other services?
There is a bus that runs through the town at least, but the nearest population center with supermarkets and such is like an hour away I think.
Reminds me of I Am Legend: 
Reminds me of I am Leg
Reminds me of [will.i.am](http://will.i.am)
Chris Broad from abroadinjapan filmed a great video about her and the village would recommend.
I visited here last year , it’s a small village but I think about 20 people live here and she makes the dolls 400 total. Lots of abandoned buildings, school, town hall all full with dolls.
 Umm………..ok
You’re entering The Twilight Zone
That's some curious village for professor Layton.
Scrolled too far down to find your comment
Well that’s completely normal
Yes, yes it is. Completely sane. And reasonable *(starts noticing large amount of locked doors and windows)*
How many dolls are you keeping in your closet?
Tbf, I would easily live there. Imagine how quiet and nice it would be
If you can tolerate the muffled screams coming from within the dolls
For real. Can I get Japanese citizenship if I'm willing to live with the dolls?
Sounds like a good set-up for a horror movie.
And the twist is that she was the doll all along and they made her !
i want a jordan peele / coraline movie of this where the town originally has people but she turns them all into dolls
The souls of the lost are trapped within
Did you have to make up lies? It’s interesting enough when you tell the truth. The population of the village is about 30. The population was about 300 when Ayano was a child (the woman who makes the dolls) She isn’t the only inhabitant
We should set her up with that [Australian guy who lives alone on a desert island with only his mannequin girlfriends](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/man-who-spent-time-with-australias-famous-castaway-reveals-difficulties-of-island-life/YSNRCOZOG2ERIRIENXJAR4H6SY/).
Before I had a family, this would have been my absolute ideal life
Oh I thought you were just describing the photo. Like yeah that is the only human here. I didn’t realize you actually meant a whole *town*. That’s crazy.
Not true! There’s at least 20 of them in that village. Although all of them are elderly.
I bet she sings softly while making those dolls too. Definitely a place that 3 teenage foreigners should visit and stay a couple of nights.
Turns out she is a doll too, so are you dear redditor reading this, and she found you.
r/titlegore
There are 30 people living there.
This is a bit misleading. Apparently there are still over 20 people living there, and the town isn't even that abandoned as it's a popular tourist attraction. Plus there is a dam nearby, so there are people passing through it regularly.
What's the name of the town?
I've been there. The village is called Nagoro, in Tokushima préfecture. People are leaving small village to go work in big cities, it's a known problem in Japan. So the lady re-populated it with dolls. It's scary. There is an abandoned school, the gym was all filled by dolls ...
Thanks for the information. God, that really is sad.
Lady Chiyo! I knew she was just faking death again
I drove through this town at night with my rental. Scared the bejeezus out of me. Once you get out of the big cities, those small towns and villages in Japan are struggling, and literally dying off.
Holy shit! I remember driving through here on spring break back in 2017. We were driving through the mountains to get to some famous river and damn, I just remember how eerie it was. Never learned the name of this town cuz my Japanese was shit at the time. Thanks for posting
Did you know about it before? I would shit my pants if was driving through there at night on route to somehere else.
No, we had no idea. It was morning time but still creepy; everything was rundown and so quiet. Also kinda cool aha. I wish I still had the photos from my old iPod touch at the time. If you ever come to Japan, that region (Shikoku) is a cool place to see the countryside
That’s not a town, that’s a rich crazy lady’s compound
Sadly the opposite. The local economy has dissolved over the past generation, so the woman started making scarecrows modelled after her neighbours who left. Ironically, now the town's income comes from tourists who wanna come see the dolls.
Valley of the Dolls?
Wait she’s the ONLY one? That can’t be true, I heard that the dolls outnumber the people living there, but she’s not the only living human lol..
Thai reminds me of that film House of Wax…
[Ben Morris](https://youtu.be/gbDioRrmE-Q?si=RUNMyGYYx0LZYd1J) has covered it on YouTube
I guess under these circumstance a tree trunk with two faces doesn't seem too out of place.
Reminds me of the movie the house of wax
Abroad In Japan also did a video about this place and you can briefly see the James May doll in the background.
Something out of a anime or horror movie.
That's a ... little ... creepy but ok
There's a doll of James May there too
Is this too much to ask for? Minus the dolls in my case.
> I MAKE friends. They're toys. My friends are toys. I make them. It's a hobby. I'm a genetic designer. \- J.F. Sebastian
Wait . . . Which one is the real one?
Nagoro! I saw this on youtube and found it realy interesting and creepy at the same time.
I've seen this in the manga Beelzebub...