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Includes a room where you can adjust its “scare factor” and one that lets you speak with the deceased.
Bolt lights up the sky, blacks out the neighborhood.
This shrine has built up a reputation for granting wishes, but not in the way you want it to.
In this Japanese season of ghosts, hopefully this advice will help you see cemeteries in a new light.
Using a Japanese ghost-hunting device, we find out if Chillingham Castle is as haunted as they say.
Crouch too close to the sewer, and you might catch a glimpse of red…oh, it’s just her ribbon.
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Some people say Pokémon is an RPG, but maybe it’s really a horror game.
“Don’t wear headphones if you go there”: this important piece of advice will make sense in a moment.
It’s like a haunted house on wheels, except you can’t choose when to ride the ESP Taxi. It chooses you.
We keep our eyes open just long enough to photograph the 50th-anniversary Sazae-san exhibition, The Real.
Proof that one country’s horror is another’s hunger.
Says that next time she’ll be dealing out swift kicks to wielders of cameras that are getting too close to her legs.
This Twitter user had to reevaluate a harmless dream journal after it crossed into the waking world.
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Hey, Japanese taxi driver! Take us to your favorite restaurant in Tsuruga City!
Our Japanese reporter visits Costco in the U.S., finds super American and very Japanese things
Tokyo restaurant’s chicken katsu mabo curry is hard to pin down, easy to love
Hanton rice — a delicious regional food even most Japanese people don’t know about, but more should
Is the new Shinkansen Train Desk ticket worth it?
We try out “Chan Ramen”, an underground type of ramen popular in the ramen community
This northern Tokyo capsule hotel is cheap, clean, comfortable, and has amazing amenities
Coordinating a whole outfit with nothing but clothes from Japanese convenience store Family Mart
Tokyo restaurant offers “DIY Tempura Bowls,” so of course we had to go check it out
Nemophila season off to an early, and beautiful, start as baby blue flowers bloom in Maishima
Convenience store robot pilots wanted, wages start at 1,450 yen per hour
Enjoy viewing Kyoto’s cherry blossoms from above on a guided zipline tour
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