Real Japanese Ghost Stories
Scary summer stories from Savvy readers all across Japan. Summer and ghost stories go hand-in-hand in Japan. With Obon (the Japanese festival of the dead) being one of the highlights of the month, it’s a time for people to share spooky stories or go out and test their livers with visits to haunted houses and locations across the country. Given the pandemic and recent uptick in COVID-19 numbers caused by the coronavirus, most haunted attractions have changed their systems to make them mask and social distancing friendly for the foreseeable future. One that I’ve heard good things about is the gh...