with over 70 of japan being covered in
mountains
most of which is forested the country
has an abundance
of tunnels they can't be avoided
from the mountain roads to the highways
to the city streets they're everywhere
in japan and legend has it
that many are haunted
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it is really dark out all things
considered
this area is actually
pretty creepy it's about 1am
we've come out here for the sole purpose
of finding this tunnel
it's actually on victor's recommendation
that we came out here
what could i say i like creepy stuff so
tell me a bit about this tunnel
i was looking for really creepy places a
lot of tunnels showed up
there's that one over in kyushu inunki
new yaki or something like that
but this one popped up quite a lot the
only thing i really know about this is
you see
people mysteriously vanish inside the
tunnel you hear voices while going
through the tunnel
but most of all the the scare factor of
this is that once you go beyond the
tunnel
there's a mirror that's facing down and
if you look into this mirror
it's supposed to show you how you die
and i think that's kind of like
the spook factor in regards to this and
uh i mean
it's it's creepy enough as is
we just came around the corner and
you can't you can't even see the end
victor is afraid of these little alcoves
here
which are tucked in and fairly dark
like you cannot see a single thing
the thing is i swear that i hear people
talking
from down this way
i don't see anyone
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started coming down pretty bad out there
so we are gonna head to the
other side of the tunnel to get a shot
of that mirror
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before we check our fates in the mirror
i wanted to swing by and show you one of
japan's most
famous haunted tunnels isegami tunnel
many stories of tunnel hauntings in
japan are born of workers who
have lost their lives during the
construction of the tunnel
isegami seems to hold to this narrative
while adding stories of a disappearing
woman
who walks the tunnel explorers be warned
there was a new tunnel built
but let's check out the original
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it seems to go through waves of these
moments where it's clear like it is now
and then other moments where it's
completely fogged out a few years ago
they didn't have the lights
inside which really added to the creepy
or scary effect of the tunnel
especially with the water running down
the side here which is on both ends i
actually find this area
a little more peaceful than anything
else
let's go inside for a minute and see
what it's like
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so
even here in tokyo right in the core of
the city
there are tunnels that are said to be
haunted
perhaps the most well known of which is
sendagaya
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tunnel
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and while it is called sendagaya tunnel
it's really more of an
underpass but it's what it's an
underpass two
that tells the story you see up above
here
is a cemetery
now this cemetery was here long before
there was a road cutting under it
and the origin stories of the hauntings
say that the construction was
rushed in order to complete the tunnel
on time for the 1964
olympics and while victor himself isn't
here with me today
oddly coincidentally this building here
is called victor studio
and some say that if you listen
carefully to tracks and songs that are
recorded at this studio
sometimes you can hear faint screams or
cries
in the background now on its surface the
tunnel doesn't really come across
as all that scary or creepy so had i not
already known about this story
probably never would have suspected it i
definitely
never would have suspected a cemetery up
on the roof
but for now let's head back to kyoto
and check out that mirror
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all right so we are up on the tunnel
overpass right now
and there's this mirror right here
and they say that if you don't see your
reflection
in the mirror it means you're gonna die
but i see me
i see me
and i don't think i'd be able to do a
video on tunnels in japan without
showing you my
personal favorite tunnel in probably the
entire
country no stories of hauntings or
anything like that just a really
neat tunnel with an incredibly low
clearance
like at its lowest point this tunnel is
only 170
centimeters it is quite an incredible
experience just to walk through it
and yes i have hit my head on this thing
more than once and while it's closed off
to cars right now
watching taxis come through here is
always quite the experience the little
emblem on top has
just enough clearance you always think
it's gonna hit
and then it never does
okay so we can't see anything on either
side
dude can you imagine if the lights went
out right now would that be the last
thing we oh
uh
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yo what's up man i got a question for
you
yes do you regret not looking into that
mirror in kyoto
the
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you know what let's go back to kyoto man
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let's do it all right cool i'll see you
soon
you