Nightmarks in Tokyo
4 nightmarks documented
Ghosts & Hauntings
Himuro Mansion — the phantom estate of Tokyo's western suburbs
Nishitōkyō / Chōfu district, Tokyo
The phantom Edo-era estate in Tokyo's western suburbs said to host a failed 'Strangling Ritual' — inspiration for the Fatal Frame video-game series, still drawing trespassers.
Ghosts & Hauntings
Kanamara and Kashima-reiko — the slit-mouthed ghost's predecessors of Tokyo's Sumida
Kinshichō Station, Sumida, Tokyo·1956
Tokyo's Sumida-ward ghost — a young woman cut in half by a train at Kashima Jingū-Shita in 1956, said to drag herself along underground passages since.
Ghosts & Hauntings
Sunshine 60 and the ghosts of Sugamo Prison (Tokyo)
Sunshine 60, Higashi-Ikebukuro, Tokyo·1948
Tokyo's 240-metre Sunshine 60 skyscraper sits on the execution yard of Sugamo Prison, where Tōjō and 59 other war criminals were hanged from 1948–1950.
UFOs/UAPs
Yokota Air Base UFO flap — the Kadena and Yokota Pacific encounters (1980s–present)
Yokota Air Base, Fussa, Tokyo·1987
From 1986 to 2023, more than 200 anomalous aerial incidents have been logged in the airspace around Yokota Air Base in Tokyo and Kadena Air Base in Okinawa.