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Room 404: What happened when we stayed in an unlucky hotel room in Japan
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Oona McGee
Feb 14, 2026 - Tweet
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- (accommodation • business hotel • cheap stays • COK • ghosts • haunted • haunted hotels • haunted places • hotel • hotels • Japanese hotel • Masanuki Sunakoma • mysteries • SNJO • supernatural • travel)
Bone-chilling taxi tours of Japan’s most haunted places now include all-night course, livestreams
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Elliot Hale
Aug 8, 2025
Who needs air-conditioning when a simple taxi ride is enough to leave you frozen in fear for the rest of the summer?
- Japan
- (COK • crazy • ghost hunting • ghosts • haunted Japan • haunted places • Horror • Sanwa Kotsu • Sanwa Koutsu • scary • taxi tours • taxis)
Japanese hand-dug tunnels on a bamboo forest trail are like a quest in a video game
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Oona McGee
Jun 11, 2024
Complete with advice from a local side character, this off-the-beaten path adventure is wild and frightening at the same time.
- Japan
- (bamboo forest • Chiba • COK • cool • countryside • forest • haunted places • history • Japanese countryside • nature • Rural Japan • rural life • SNJO • travel • trees • tunnels)
The oldest tunnel in Japan is believed to be haunted, and strange things happen when we go there
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Oona McGee
Apr 18, 2024
- Japan
- (COK • cool • countryside • Fukui • haunted places • history • Japanese countryside • Japanese train stations • Kotone Tunnel • Rural Japan • rural life • Seiji Nakazawa • SNJO • steam locomotive • train station • train stations • trains • travel)
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