Shiba Inu まる's Halloween dress up/Booking official announcement screenshot
A few days ago, on Halloween in October, at this time of year, the circle of friends can see various Japanese friends and start posting photos of Shibuya Halloween cross-dressing Cosplay events.
Although this year is a bit difficult, many shibuya bars and nightclubs that originally held events have been canceled by themselves, but after all, unlike Kawasaki, the largest Halloween costume cosplay event in Japan, Shibuya Halloween is a spontaneous act of the unorganized people.
However, the long-legged sister said that she generally waited in the back row, privately sent, and did not go to the Shibuya front.
Abu Travel Notes asked her why? The answer is simple: it is difficult to leave the bus, and it is troublesome to get home.
authentic.
The climax of Shibuya Halloween events usually lasts until after midnight, which is around this time when Tokyo's public transportation ends. If you miss the final power, you really have to wander the streets until dawn, tired.
Usually Halloween Shibuya Street of the year / Kay Papa photo
Shibuya Halloween in Brother Mango's Eyes/Brother Mango
Another young sister, Mango Brother, added another sentence: "Shibuya Halloween, that is really crowded, it feels like all the Japanese people are coming, more exaggerated than the new year's countdown." ”
In such a crowded situation, it is really not easy to go once. Suddenly I thought, in fact, I want to experience Shibuya Halloween, feel the atmosphere of "ghosts" around me, and think from the experience of customized travel arrangements, there are still many places.
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Universal Studios
Osaka
USJ Halloween daytime is still suitable for all ages /official announcement
After all, The Japanese People's Halloween, like the Christmas Lantern Festival, basically belongs to the Western festival entertainment, more like a carnival day. Shibuya costumes on the street among the creative is much more funny, imitation of animated characters, movie characters of the cross-dressing is also a lot, most of the cute girls are still willing to make beautiful makeup such as ghost brides, or put on a Pikachu head cover on the street, join in a hilarity.
USJ Horror Halloween/Official Announcement
Really want the street scary, but also entertainment professional to come, Disney even if it is, take the cute route, Osaka USJ Universal Studios Halloween event during the night street zombie army is quite OK, the performance is really hard, Abu travel notes custom users in a number of timid, was scared in the park around, come back to tell us, too unforgettable.
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Chosin's weird talk
Chiba
Choshi Tram Haunted House Train/Official Announcement
If you talk about the traditional Japanese ghost-loading event, it is certainly not the end of October on Halloween, which is traditionally the Olan holiday in August in the summer. Dark roads in the countryside at night, shrines and cemeteries in the woods behind the village and back mountains, people who try their guts walk through these somewhat mad places by themselves, and accept the frightening challenges set up by their friends on the way, which is commonly known as the "test of courage conference".
Think about it, this is the source of the seasonal "haunted house" play in the summer Japanese mall, the playground. Timid like us, usually thinking that we are really scared in the middle, we can still take the emergency exit to leave, and when we are curious about the layout of the haunted house, we dare to go in.
Until, later, I saw the "mobile haunted house" launched by Luanzi Electric Railway, and there were four words in the propaganda - non-stop in the middle, which frightened people.
Judging from the haunted house themes of the past years, last year's school was abandoned, and there were cursed dolls, vanished brides, and legends of shipwrecks, which are really popular themes in modern Japanese ghost stories, especially suitable for Japanese horror movies.
And the Tokyo-Kumako, a low-end version of Kamakura's niche seaside route, which we introduced in the previous "Lonely Foodie" behind-the-scenes decoding (specific click: The Sea of Choshi), is also a slow travel route that is very suitable for a day trip from Tokyo.
Sea of Choshi /Lonely 2 screenshot
Public railways to build a haunted house train for entertainment, which is still a bit unimaginable in China. If you are bold, you may wish to experience the 50-minute long close-up haunted house on this rural seaside mobile train, and look forward to your return to tell us about the experience. We were so scared that we couldn't sit down, and people were shivering just by watching the promotional pages for a long time.
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Hyakki Yagetsu
Kyoto
Kyoto Ichijo Hyakki Yogyo /Kaichiro Yasugi
A little closer to traditional Japanese culture than Japanese urban ghost legends, or, for Chinese, a little more intimate ghost, look at Kyoto's Hundred Ghosts Nocturnal Walk.
The Hundred Ghosts Nocturnal Walk is much earlier than the "Hundred Tales" era of the Edo period, and you have to skip a thousand years at once, which was the Heian period when yin and yang masters appeared. Black and white impermanence, minotaur horse noodles, as well as the big tengu, fox demons, the Chinese monsters in the Classic of Mountains and Seas have transformed into the hundred ghosts of Ping'anjing.
On the night of the third Saturday night in October, in Kitano Nishijin, an old street that is easily overlooked by foreign tourists, the "One Hundred Ghosts Night Walk" monster cross-dressing parade is held. It is only 1,700 meters away from the shrine of Abe Haruaki, the most famous yin and yang teacher in Japanese history.
Abe Seimei Shrine Medium Five-Pointed Star / Gorira 摄
The residential areas around Kitano Nishijin are also easy to find renovated and rented single-family Kyo-style machiya houses, which are unexpectedly clean.
800 meters east of the Harumei Shrine is the Kyoto Gyoen Garden, which is next to the courtyard of the "Tiger House" home, the first sign of Japanese wagashi, and 800 meters to the north is the tea room of the Japanese Tea Ceremony Sect's Chichiya Family, "No Trial". 800 meters north from "Bu Tsui" and by tram from Kurama Pass, you can reach Kurama Temple, where the legend has it that the Kurama Mountain monk Shobo taught Genyi Sutra swordplay.
Directly leading to the Tang and Song Dynasties, Ping'an Jing, on this hundred ghosts of the night, for people from China, perhaps the strangeness will reveal a little bit of classical familiarity, this route wants to be arranged.
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Prince Fox Ranks
Tokyo
Utagawa Koshige Ukiyo-e, New Year's Eve Fox Fire/adachi-hanga Kannobu
Legend has it that foxes from all over Japan will change into new costumes on the eve of New Year's Day and gather around the Prince Inari Shrine of the Inari Shrine in Kantō Yashu.
So, on the night of December 31, Tokyoites changed into "fox new clothes" at the Inari Shrine and marched to the Prince Inari Shrine at 0:00 when the New Year's Day bell rang, just like in the "Foxfire of the Great Obscure Day" in the Utagawa Hiroshige Ukiyo-e about 200 years ago.
Compared with the "Hundred Ghosts Nocturnal Walk" unearthed in Kyoto from the culture of a thousand years ago, the legend of the prince fox ranks in Tokyo is only a few hundred years old. But the larger scale of activities and the stronger sense of ceremony are still more crowded in Tokyo.
After all, they are all new folk customs of modern revival, and the history of the revival of the prince fox ranks is still more than ten years older than that of the Hundred Ghosts Night Walk.
Prince Fox Ranks Parade Map/Official Announcement Map
If you can't wait for the queue in the early morning, the Abu Travel Notes custom users who participated in the activity came back to tell us that the vicinity of the station was already quite lively around 10 o'clock, full of people with fox masks, and from that meeting until the early morning, the whole street was still quite atmospheric.
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Koizumi Yasson
Matsue
The Strange Talk of Koizumi Yakumo / Official Propaganda Of Shanghai Translation Publishing House
In Tokyo during the Edo period, foxfire was famous and there were many strange talks, and the most famous female ghost of them, we think it should be regarded as Ayan in "Tokaido Four Valley Strange Talk".
When we first learned about Ah Yan's story, we thought it was the story in "Strange Talk" compiled by Koizumi Yakumo. After reading the original book, I found that the most impressive one in Koizumi Yakumo's "Strange Talk" was the legendary "Akama Jingu Shrine" in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture, which is famous for the puffer fish market.
Koizumi Yakumo used desk / studio150 photo
However, the Koizumi Yakumo Punch Card Place that Abu Travel Notes most want to go to is Matsue in Shimane Prefecture, about 1,000 meters away from Matsue Castle Castle, and the transportation is also convenient. An hour's drive east of Koizumi Yakumo Matsue's Former Residence is Izumo Taisha Shrine, 25 kilometers southeast of the former residence is the Adachi Museum of Art, and tottori Seisei Port, 20 kilometers away next door, is a mass production area for Matsubashi crabs in the Sea of Japan.
The autumn autumn foliage period begins in November, just in time for the crab season in Shangjinggang, you can eat a pine leaf crab for less than 100 yuan; plus 60 yuan, you can eat pine leaf crab. From Kansai Airport, you can also pass through the town of Conan, and you can think that the San'in Line is really a good route in autumn.
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Raw and stripped ghost sacrifice
Akita
Akita Raw Peels The Ghost Wood Lantern Festival/Official Announcement
The ghost legend in Japan's local folklore, which is most familiar to international tourists, is estimated to be the "ghost fireworks" in the summer of Noboribetsu Jigokudani in Hokkaido. But this event, judging from the description of its registration of the Folk Culture Property, has been a sightseeing event from the beginning, and it has been held for the sake of the commercial prosperity of the hot spring town and the safety of tourists, but the year of the event has been held for nearly half a century from today.
But every time we look at the ghost shape of Nobori nobori, we will think of Akita's "raw peeling ghost", the legend that in the Chinese New Year's Eve night, in the house to find children who cry their noses and disobedient children, as well as delicious and lazy new wives, this folk custom appeared in the Oga Peninsula of Akita, from the historical record, at least nearly 200 years.
If tourists want to go to the local area to experience the folklore, the most ideal time, Abu Travel Notes generally recommends going to Akita in early February in winter. The Oga Raw Peeling Ghost Wood Lantern Festival is usually held on the second weekend of February, which is not much different from february 15, which is usually held at Akita Yokote's iiso festival.
Grievances of baba's Akita inu/official propaganda
Akita Inu Station near Akita Station / official announcement
Oga, which can be reached by a 1-hour drive from Akita Station to the northwest, yokote, which can be reached in 1 hour from Akita Station to the southeast, and the famous Akita Inu, which can be enjoyed up close and near Akita Station.
This winter Akita travel line, Mizushi.
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Mountain Terror Spirit Field
Lower North Peninsula
Mt. Zoe Bliss Hama/Official Propaganda Map
The Noboriku Hell Valley Ghost Fireworks event originated because of the legend that ghosts appear in the valley that looks like hell. Abu Travel Notes always feel that this statement is a bit reluctant, especially the customized users who have returned to Theobetsu Hot Springs after the snow, most of them will only use magnificence to describe the scene they see.
We feel more qualified to say that we are like hell, and it should be regarded as the northernmost mountain in Honshu, Japan. In Japanese folklore, it is the place where it is most likely to communicate with the deceased.
There is not only a place called Jigokudani, but also a three-way river that separates this shore from the other shore, and a blissful hama that symbolizes the world of Elysium.
However, the real reason why Abu Travel Notes introduced the fear of the mountain was to find a reason for himself to go to the nearby Oma Fishing Port and make a tuna fisherman's dish (specific click: go to Japan to eat the local ingredients of the island country).
Photo by Tabelog-Sosie of absolutely thick cut tuna rice bowls in the Strait of Oma
As for the season to the Lower North Peninsula? Naturally, in autumn, tuna begins to be fattened, suitable for outdoor autumn leaf walks, and it is not too cold to stand on the beach and blow the wind of the Tsugaru Strait.
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Aokiwara Fuji-Hakai
Lake Kawaguchi
Fuji Tree Sea /outback-e official photo under aerial photography lens
Ancient temples, shrines, old mansions, and places where people can think of ghosts and monsters are actually places where there are "people".
The reason why lake Kawaguchi's Aokihara tree sea is related to ghosts and monsters is, of course, people.
This primeval forest, formed by the eruption of Mt. Fuji, is a legendary no-man's land that invalidates a compass. Near the mega-city of Tokyo, the transportation is convenient and private, listening to this condition, as a place for human beings to actively disappear, it is really like water droplets merging into the sea.
Traveling, in broad daylight, taking the designated route in the forest, Spungnoir, who is very fond of outdoor hiking among Abu's friends who travel notes, said, "The actual hiking atmosphere of Aokihara Tree Sea is very good, it is not mysterious at all, but if you suddenly meet someone inside, you will be frightened." (Specific click: Actual exploration of Aoki Hara Tree Sea).
Photo by Aoki Hara Kaiuchi / Spugnoir
In addition to the sea of trees, Fuji-Q Highland on the south side of Kawaguchi Lake also has a popular haunted house "Shudder Labyrinth", although the difficulty has decreased year by year, but those who have been there say that it is still the highest grade haunted house in Japan.
Hearing the highest grade, we dare not go even more. If there is a doll hall on the south bank of Kawaguchi Lake, which has a sense of unwarranted nostalgia, suitable for pairing with Aokihara Shuhai.
PS：
In the Edo period of Japan, a kind of "Hundred Stories" was played, a hundred candles were lit at night, a group of people sat around the candles, and every time a "ghost story" was told, a candle was extinguished, but the story was always told ninety-nine times, so that the last candle was burned until dawn.
It's dawn, and it's the world of ordinary people again.