As an American in Japan, here in the Kanto area there are many places that are considered haunted or cursed. The Fatal Frame series takes a lot of inspiration from this area of Japan, especially in the Morioka area. Also, living in Fukushima it is still a haunting site seeing the abandoned towns still from the Tsunami disaster.

@rain1676

Жыл бұрын

Are you ok? Did you ran into kilumba?

@Kill3rrockstar

Жыл бұрын

I've heard Hiroshima is a neat place to visit

@rain1676

Жыл бұрын

@@Kill3rrockstar it is.

@dbzhustle1078

Жыл бұрын

Damn wonder what the hoenn area looks like too

@tikimillie

Жыл бұрын

Lots of pokemons too i bet

Aki: "Here is a forest that no one can enter." Aki: "I went into the forest anyway, so stay tuned for that video."

@Camera123

Жыл бұрын

Whatever dimension she was sucked into must have good internet.

@loodgack

Жыл бұрын

average urban explorer sentence

@alangkansrisuwor5480

Жыл бұрын

I hope she won't left us hanging...

@ANPC-pi9vu

Жыл бұрын

It's such a tiny patch of land that the legend seems too laughable.

@macho6979

Жыл бұрын

It looks more like a tourist attraction

I love that the "forbidden forest where if you enter you are banished to another dimension or forever curesd" is on a tiny lot between a familymart and the city hall

@GafftheHorse

Жыл бұрын

Dimensional portals aside, I have trouble with the idea anything that takes up so tiny a plot in an urban area could be considered a 'forest'. But if it does have a portal, it could be bigger inside than out.

@southcoastinventors6583

Жыл бұрын

Should be a memorial to a real forest because that looks sad.

@aihoshinoirl

10 ай бұрын

like that one jojo bizzare adventure, where you enter this corner and you can’t leave

I am Japanese. Forbidden places in Japan are rare, and it is mysterious and fun to know how they came to be, so please go check them out. However, it goes without saying that you should never set foot in a "no-go" area, no matter what country it is in. In particular, you should never go to the Fukushima no-go zones. Since foreign influencers started spreading photos of the area a few years ago, many unwanted dark tourists have visited the area and crimes such as damaging the place, stealing and vandalizing things have increased. Due to well-known circumstances around the world, the place is abandoned, but the buildings and land are private and owned by someone. Please do not post these photos or videos on the Internet. We were torn apart and had to leave our familiar homeland. It is still an inaccessible place. Please understand the sadness we feel when we are shown photos and videos via social networking services of foreign tourists trampling on the decaying homes and streets.

Chris Broad did a documentary about the exclusion zone for the 10 year anniversary and he got special permission to do so. It was really interesting.

@Bun800

Жыл бұрын

Yes! I watched this in '21. It was a fascinating mini docu-series.

@southcoastinventors6583

Жыл бұрын

Yeah he also complained about having it been one of his least popular videos.

@auberginebear

Жыл бұрын

@@southcoastinventors6583 I'd complain too if I were proud of a documentary I'd made does poorly next to a video about my tongue in cheek complaints about Japan. He did a great job and has ever right to be hurt by the lackluster response.

@southcoastinventors6583

Жыл бұрын

@@auberginebear Mr. Beast is the most popular KZreadr for a reason quality programming always gets the shaft at this point shouldn't really be surprised.

@sleepysartorialist

Жыл бұрын

Yes I enjoyed that but also was a bit worried for him.

Superstitions aside, 1: I think this area is off limits, mostly because they don't want people, tourists especially, to take a piece of the forest with them. 'Cause you know they'll do that. They'll take a branch here, a branch there, basically damaging the forest. I'm sure most people would not like that. That tomb you mentioned could also help. 2: Again, forget ghosts. An unstable cliff, and car accidents, are enough to just avoid it altogether. 3: I mean, yeah. Is the same reason you shouldn't visit Chernobyl. Unless you have experience with that stuff, and you want to help with cleanup or data gathering.

@julesoxana

Жыл бұрын

True and may all the lives lost at the chernobyl and fukushima incident and tsunami Rest in Peace🙏

@CBThunder-gr4cu

Жыл бұрын

11:06

@southcoastinventors6583

Жыл бұрын

@@julesoxana Fukushima incident only recorded 1 life loss due to potential radiation exposure. Everyone else was due to the actually aftermath of the tsunami.

@julesoxana

Жыл бұрын

@@southcoastinventors6583 Thanks for the info and yea i also mean the tsunami

@amberg4131

Жыл бұрын

Florida they had people swiping the beach sand but I see people are sellingnit online

Japan is def on my bucket list to go to. I’m actually still trying to learn the language and customs because I feel it’s respectful.

@FlashBO7

Жыл бұрын

Oh nihongo jozu

@JT5555

Жыл бұрын

honestly,don't worry about it too much: you're an outsider so no one would EXPECT you to know how to speak japanese or know all the customs and won't fault you if you mess up. so long as you know enough to get by for a vacation then you should be fine.XD

@eldeuls1237

Жыл бұрын

From my experience, even if you understand absolutely nothing on what they’re trying to say They can be pretty understandable, when Japanese speak to foreigners they usually give a lot of hand gestures making them easier to understand, ofcourse learning few things as simple as numbers and asking directions makes a huge difference

@BB-TheCandleFairy

Жыл бұрын

I would recommend what the comment above mine said, as someone who is just leading the language (not specifically to travel) entrance/beginner level practice in most English→Japanese classes/courses always cover the basics and tourist need-to-knows. Plus there are plenty of guides and courses made specifically for people who only need to know a little for when they want to visit Japan. From what I observed, and as Aki has shown in some of her videos, larger cities and popular tourist/travel spots and areas in Japan will have a lot of English access and understanding. But as I also have come to know, Japanese aren’t very keen to outsiders in many ways but one way to help get some respect is knowing some Japanese. Anyone who is or can pass as eastern Asian gets a ‘pass’ or just not judged as hard by the locals.

@quinnhouk5369

Жыл бұрын

Same. I also wanna visit Paris and England

The age restriction is annoying but since I saw your Japanese haunted cave video I was amazed, I know a lot of people covered videos about haunted places already, especially in Japan but I really like videos where people can see it for themselves!

@ravenpotter3

Жыл бұрын

I got that alert too, when I clicked on this video

@southcoastinventors6583

Жыл бұрын

I think it because she wore the black shirt and haunted mansion background music.

Japan was so isolated from outside world and was able to be in a single culture for thousands of generations, they really did have even the tiniest fantasies and stories and lore get soo much mileage and stayed all the way towards the modern world. And it feeds into the culture and people's mentality as a loop.. resulting in people feeling strongly towards curses and other supernatural emotions. Resulting in things like the Fukushima one (also deterioration of population helps ig since you can afford to leave locations free). Such an interesting country

@southcoastinventors6583

Жыл бұрын

Not really people from China and Korea visited plenty of times including the golden horde.

@ANPC-pi9vu

Жыл бұрын

​@@southcoastinventors6583 That is still far less interaction with the outside world than other nations.

@ANPC-pi9vu

Жыл бұрын

I think the animistic aspect of Shinto also plays a role.

@alvinsmith3894

Жыл бұрын

​@@southcoastinventors6583 And then they destroyed most of it/disregarded it because of communism. Interesting.

I don't know if it's cause I'm high or feeling nostalgic, but this video gives off a 2007 youtube vibe. I don't know how to explain it.. It could be the lighting, the font, the vibe. Just giving good ol' nostalgia feeling.

@JT5555

Жыл бұрын

can't it be both?

In our culture our ancestors and grandparents always told us to be careful around bamboo forest because bad spirits / ghost lives there and i never believed it until i experienced it myself. I've felt their presence my friends did too and some have been possessed too

@ANPC-pi9vu

Жыл бұрын

I want to visit, then. I grew up in haunted places and am fascinated. I actually miss being haunted. The visits where I live now are so rare that it feels like loosing a part of myself in a way. Experiencing the paranormal is a precious gift because it confirms there's more to the world than what science can as of yet explain.

@alienvomitsex

Жыл бұрын

​@@ANPC-pi9vu After earning an MSc in biochemistry I can say studying science might be the quickest way to discover how little scientists can currently explain.

@ANPC-pi9vu

Жыл бұрын

@@alienvomitsex Yes, but I want to interact with things beyond scientific explanation, and have been lucky enough to experience that at some points in my life. There's no denying it when an entity is able to move objects, slam doors, or leave a handprint on a high ceiling, and others are there also experiencing it.

Oh gosh- a content warning.. this video is gonna be interesting for sure

@JT5555

Жыл бұрын

i think i missed the part where the self-harm was happening cause i don't remember any mention of it in the actual video.

@TheActualJae

Жыл бұрын

Just a simple mention of suicide get's that warning popped up. It was mentioned in conjunction with the courtesan story. Apparently folks have committed suicide in that same forest. I think it was just one line in the vid though.

@mollyapteros

Жыл бұрын

​@@JT5555 There's a passing mention when she talks about the place where the courtesans were murdered.

so the entry to the forest is banned because you could get isekai-ed, seems fun.

Japan: There's an ancient tomb under a tiny forest that makes it all cursed and stuff! Egypt: That's cute...

Not sure if I should be proud of knowing the places. My autism obsession is Japanese mythology, legends, and haunted ish stuff, so stuff like this is what lil 10-11 year old me searched a ton about, and like others say, the places are linked to people's traumas, "causing" the restless spirits or haunted, so a way of dealing with its history and japans way of respecting the traumas. Hope to study Japanese mythology and legends, as i've always felt calm seeing images of places (plus got a birthmark of 大 on ma calf). But really happy you've taken this interest Aki and can't wait to hear moe

@artemisbrown8478

Жыл бұрын

literally, this is my special interest. I love Japan

@funkthat

Жыл бұрын

Drop the links for the youtube channels for the myths and historical stories thanks

@meimei

Жыл бұрын

@@funkthat kowabana and lazy masquerade have a lot!

@artemisbrown8478

Жыл бұрын

@@funkthat Limfany is a good KZread channel for Japanese history

@ymotechnopopfan

Жыл бұрын

Same. I have been obsessed with Japan all my life.

I am not sure if shrines are the same in cultures but I asked Iraqi- Arabian men who return to Iraq about abandoned shrines and if it's forbidden to enter due to curses or due to the practices in shrines. Their response was think of an abandoned church and people entering the abandoned church and doing rituals to summon things that shouldn't be messed with. So I kinda understand why certain shrines or churches that are abandoned should be respected and not disturbed. You never know the entities of the shrines or what they're capable of.

@dannylo5875

Жыл бұрын

Yep. Many different types of portals with spiritual deities can be open up. These beings linger around. Causing trouble. Also some stay bound to other dimensions as they could be highly powerful or dangerous.

@FranciscoSilva-bv9qq

Жыл бұрын

Didnt Isis try to deliberately destroy them when they were active?

@Andalaeknir86

11 ай бұрын

Even old burial mounds and places out in land we never know what we may wake up. That is also how we become sick

@Andalaeknir86

11 ай бұрын

​@@dannylo5875in places like Mongolia there are earth lords basically savdag that are avoided cause how how fierce abd dangerous it is to interact and better to leave alone. I found this out through a friend who needed to travel to that spot cause a "gift" he got from a black smith shaman inhabited that spirit and they had to pacify and feed and follow specific rituals and then go to that mountain region which most locals rather feel fearful and rather avoid

I'm really enjoying these spooky/ history videos. Thanks for the awesome vids.

We need people like you to keep it real😘💜✨

I introduced one of the little kids in my family to Pokémon a few months ago. Last week I showed them red and blue on my old game boy, and told them the Kanto region is a real place, then showed them on Google maps where Kanto is. They’re now really excited and want to go there and catch a Pikachu in Viridian Forest 😂

I want to see more of these. You should do a video on Japanese urban legends that would be awesome!

I remember when the Fukushima meltdown happened and how scary it was to see that happen. Its hard to believe its been over a decade now.

👏Great video Aki! I never thought much on restricted areas in others countries, and the reasons behind why some of these spots in Japan are banned is deeply fascinating🕵‍♀.

I really do enjoy your haunted history/places series. The history I get to learn is amazing!

i think there are many places in japan that are 'haunted' because people have gone through so many traumas that in order for their brains to digest and understand their intense fear of some places they chalk it up to being haunted by dead souls. if you aki didn't know that these places were 'haunted' and just went bcs u were curious u wont feel or see anything unusual and may also enjoy the place. but that's just me.

@mintsolstice3535

Жыл бұрын

It would make sense with the japanese culture and avoiding extreme emotions...

@ashiri8445

Жыл бұрын

It's true! If you strongly believe in something, it can happen to you. It's called self-fulfilling prophecy

@katiebailey3439

Жыл бұрын

I also think some places are genuinely creepy and will trigger that flight or fight response.

@tacobell1299

Жыл бұрын

Another reason could literally be the fact that ancient Japanese history has alot to do with spirits

@petefrancisco3267

Жыл бұрын

Girls in Japan looks like Sadako! They are cute...

Thank you, this was a great vlog. Your doing some really great content.

I definitely think it’s really something to know that a few places in Japan don’t allow anybody to visit, probably for safety reasons I believe 😉🥰

I love these kinds of things, and it's always very interesting and can't beat that it's one of my go-to KZread channels that is doing it. Great video!

I appreciate this video and channels like yours. I'm currently planning a trip for spring 2024 and I'm overwhelmed lol. At least knowing were I can't/shouldn't go is helpful. :3

Please make more videos like this explaining the history behind the various places. They don't necessarily have to be banned or restricted, any place is interesting when there's a story behind it!

LOVED THE VIDEO, BRING MORE PLEASEEEE

Always informative. Thanks.

I want to see and hear more places we can't go so people can't get into trouble. You are right that there is not a lot of videos that I know of on places where we can't go to Japan. Keep good work and do your best. More of these vidoes please

@southcoastinventors6583

Жыл бұрын

Several restaurants in Japan do not allow foreigners in them.

That was super interesting! I hope you do another video like this!

That was really good. Thank you for sharing, please keep this type of content coming!

yay a new aki video, thank you aki for todays video :)

Aki I love your content been a fan for so long your so honest you have the most beautiful heart x❤

It is great that family and friends can now visit 😊. It’s also good that people who have been wanting to come are now allowed, although I have enjoyed the quiet places which are now becoming super busy and crowded again😮

this was some stuff i´ve never heard of at all honestly the Yokai part you mentioned makes me think that´s what inspired the Manga/anime of Nurahiyon the whole leader of the Yokai part sounds very much like that

yo,there is a yu-gi-oh card called maiden of macabre (geishadow in jaapnese) who is is kind of a geisha/oiran and now i think she's supposed to be specifically one of the oiran that killed the miners (she even straight up carries a scythe with bones for the handle like a grim reaper).

Love this video❤ and RIP to all the lives lost from the tragedies at the Oiran Buchi and Fukishima Incidents, Earthquake and Tsunami💔🙏

Awesome stuff, Aki! Looking forward to The Forest

Aki: You can't go to this forest. Also Aki: I went to that forest. Me: Then there's nothing that will stop me. Aki: You can't go to this waterfall area. Also Aki: But there are people that go anyways. Me: Tempting, but if there's a chained fence, I guess I'll stick to just camping near it. And yeah, I was sure the Fukushima plant/surroundings would be part of this list, but if I wanted to risk radiation contamination, I would go all the way and go look for a certain elephant foot.

@LyraPyxisVT

Жыл бұрын

That didn't happened there

@LyraPyxisVT

Жыл бұрын

The elephant foot was a different place

@Only_Ameen04

Жыл бұрын

​@@LyraPyxisVT Yeah it was Chernobyl

@LyraPyxisVT

Жыл бұрын

@@Only_Ameen04 ya

@LyraPyxisVT

Жыл бұрын

@Ameen Hensem and chernobly is still not livable, the radiation is still to high to

Enjoyed this ❤

In Japan, there was a way to prevent people from peeing standing up in the city. You can draw illustrations of shrine torii gates in red paint on the walls and telephone poles of izakaya neighborhoods where drunks often stand up and urinate. Even many non-religious Japanese people thought that standing in front of the torii gate and urinating would bring divine punishment. It is a sign that I often saw in town a while ago.

@user-ue2vt7pd5x

Жыл бұрын

By the way, during a two-day outdoor demonstration that took place in the center of Seoul, South Korea the other day, it is said that the surrounding area smelled terrible because the participants were drinking heavily and urinating in the occupied area.

Can't wait to watch!!!

Thanks for the advice

Okinawa is Venice beach mixed with Tokyo, i never hear anybody talk about it, it looks pretty cool

I love your books in the background ❤📚

A forest that when you enter, you're isekai'd. Say no more!

Wow cool stories, historical stuff is always interesting

I love this video!!! Make more :)

😢 that's very understandable, especially to those that lost their livelihood in the aftermath. Is wanting to return would hurt, because nothing in the same, and they would have to start from the ground up.

I actually am going to Japan! I’m going in June! So excited

I wonder if any of that stuff in Fukushima could be brought back/decontaminated and preserved for the time period. Considering most stuff was undamaged, and unused because they were in stores, there would be a lot of stuff there with no sentimental value that, if could be decontaminated, would be perfect for collecting time period pieces.

@southcoastinventors6583

Жыл бұрын

Video already said radiation is already at background level so zero risk remember that this not a fallout game this is real life.

@ANPC-pi9vu

Жыл бұрын

​​@@southcoastinventors6583 There's still an exclusion zone where radiation is higher it's just small. Over all this nuclear disaster was far far smaller and less severe than Churnoble, where the massive exclusion zone is still hazardous to this day. Real life can be that scary, but the newer the nuclear reactor, the safer it is. And now there could be fast reactors built that can't meltdown like the previous generations.

*tries to get into one of the rare tour groups in the last place out of spite*

I just realized one of these locations is referenced in Fatal Frame Maiden of Black Water

@randomscb-40charger78

7 ай бұрын

The Ephermeral forest or the pool of purification?

@patyos2

7 ай бұрын

​@@randomscb-40charger78 The pool of purification waterfall.

I fffffffriggin’ love stuff like this ❤ though even though my soul is ravaged by curiosity i would never try to go to one of these places haha. Gotta respect the mystery ‘n all that (also i have zero desire to have a terrifying ghost experience thank you lolol). I would like to see the bamboo forest from the outside though!

I'm so glad I went back in january it wasn't as crowded as it is now

Noted thank you Aki

Good video, keep them up :)

Ah yes oiran buchi. I used to live near that area a few years back and luckily we never had any problems, but there are usually a lot of car accidents in that area like you said in your video. According to locals, they said that men tend to get “possessed” by the women spirits and crash the car. Some claim that you will also find bloody handprints on the car as well when you drive past too. 🤔

Amazing akidearest.

I hate that they cut down the trees in front of the forest shrine. Urban greenery is so precious and those trees were so gorgeous.

The only reason I want to go to Japan is for the Suicide forest, Akihabara, and the Red Light District. I'd also like to go to hot springs, Tokyo, and other places.

Those are awesome band sites I would like to know more band sites in Japan

Sucked into another dimension?? I wanna get issekai'd in Yawata no Yabushirazu

I would love a video about places to go in japan❤❤❤❤

Very cool thank you!

I bet some have been looking at this video and gone through these cursed places

In Japan right now for a vacation went up the mountain of the 10,000 torii gate shrine in Kyoto then wandered off path into the pitch darkness of the forest 🙀 I'm typing this literally as I'm walking out of the final torii gate. Heard spooky things in the forest, had a feeling of being watched 😨 Something deep within Me told me to turn back... Fun experience much Gucci😎☝️

Suicide forest is a scary place at night I went there but went prepared for supernatural encounters I spent the night there and it was terrifying I seen red eyes all over starting at me all night and I could here voices and screams after the sun rose I left the forest and went to a shrine and had a exorcism done on me to make sure no evil spirits were brought back with me

Man, I want more vids like this one.

Very cool idea

Awesome video.

Every now i then, i can hear you say things joey says or does. Its interesting

The forest being closed off is probably more to do with health and safety then anything else. Being so close to the sidewalk and busy pedestrians.

the bg music in this video spooked me way more than it shouldve. doesnt help that it's 2:33 am 😅

I laughed so hard at the spoiler 😂 Up yours superstition!

I am going to the TEPCO Fukushima Daiichi on a tour in June :D

That tool you mentioned for the loom in english is called a shuttlecock

Went last December can’t wait to go back next month or sum

The Pringles mug at the back

If you are of age and YT isn't letting you watch the video, click the drop down at the top left, look towards the bottom and enable "Restricted mode" then disable it. It will give you the option to watch it then.

I would move to Fukushima just so I could do some urban exploring.

I am intrigued. The forest in the middle of the city? The walls do not look exactly tall, I cannot see any fences etc, how do they stop people entering? It looks fairly easy to get in

I thought it was because of the bamboo but this is very interesting to learn.

Wow, KZread warned me this was a spicy boy of a video. Alright, Aki, better make it worth my very cheap while

Japanese mines are a whole other level of cursed and/or creepy

Have you been to any really old shrines? Like the Hie Shrine was built in the year 807. Since you like history!

I wish I could go to Japan it seems like an amazing place to start a family

@JT5555

Жыл бұрын

there is actually so much irony in that sentence because japan is actually in the middle of a birthrate crisis because people aren't hooking up and starting families.XD

@eastercat

Жыл бұрын

Make sure you look up the culture of working there before you think of settling there. It's really intense. Japan seems like a great place to visit at least, but living there is another story.

@AmazinglyAwkward

Жыл бұрын

@@eastercat amen!

That forest sounds like an isekai dream

I was in Tokyo back in November 2022, stayed for about 4 months and left....

How was the spooky bamboo forest? What was the other dimension like? Did the yokai give you a watch?

Haunted places are so fascinating to me 😊

The fatal frame 2 was based on this forest. It took mio and mayu to a different dimension

I remember chris made a special video on Fukushima 2 years ago

I bet your most likely doing your video on this topic because of this right let me guess When planning a trip to Japan, make sure you know if there are any travel restrictions in place and any entry requirements you need to follow. Japan has now completely removed all COVID-19 entry restrictions. Immigration rules have returned to normal from May 8, 2023. If you are thinking about traveling to Japan, you can check this regularly updated page and find out what you need to visit the country. Below you’ll find information about the reinstatement of visa exemptions, vaccine and testing requirements, and other coronavirus measures in Japan. I googled it.

Wow that forest looks like a portal to another diemantion.

Wow when there are three times confirmation alert in this video i know its quite serious topic to talk about

Not sure if it's banned but there's the forest near the Fuji-san, there's many people going there to get lost and end their lives