My trip to the Ju-On house!

Well, thought I'd share this, since it was Halloween... yesterday. (Yes, I'm a little late. But the call of the paranormal channel line up on Sky+ was just too tempting.)

Last year, whilst I was living in Tokyo, my friend and I took a trip to the house from the Japanese 'Ju-On' films.

The house is in a very secluded neighbourhood in the Saitama prefecture, and it took us about 3 hours to find it.

On the train...

On our way!

First we found the bridge used at the end of 'Ju-On: The Grudge 2' 

We walked around for ages, asking various people. And then eventually....

WE FOUND IT! 見つけたぁ！

Back garden...

Another building next to the main house, used in the original straight-to-video films, as Kyoko's parent's house

The back of the house... 

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ひきずり The Ghost of Komatsugawa Highway

小松川号線は東京都の篠崎方面から、千葉県船橋方面までつながる高速道路である。この道路に沿って歩く女がいるという。
しかし、この女は死人である。
最初は、車がびゅんびゅん走る路肩を歩いている。しかし、その歩き方はおかしく、まるで何かをひきずるように、ずるりずるりと歩いていく。
そしてその体は徐々に崩れていく。
腕がもげ、
足がもげ、
鼻がもげ、
女の歩いた路肩には、崩れた肉体の破片が落ちている。
そして最後は右腕だけが這っていき、消えていく。
女は大型車両に巻き込まれた交通事故の犠牲者だと言われている。

The Komatsugawa route is a highway that runs from Shinozaki in Tokyo, to Funabashi in the Chiba prefect.
It is said that there is a woman who walks along side this road.
However, she is dead.
At first, she walks along the hard shoulder of the road as the cars whiz by. But her walk is strange; she walks as if she were dragging something along with her.
Next, her body begins to crumble. Her arms, legs and nose fall off, and chunks of the woman's flesh fall onto the road. Finally, the woman's right arm begins to crawl, before disappearing.
It is said that the woman was the victim of an accident that happened on the highway, involving a large vehicle.

From:
「幻想都市伝説」
著者：山口敏太郎
発行：株式会社コスミック出版

Just starting out!

First post!
The rest of my posts will be Japanese ghost stories, folklore and urban legends- in their original Japanese forms and in my English translations.
So I suppose just a little bit about me; I've just graduated from a university in the UK, with a degree in Japanese Studies. My main interest throughout my studies has been ghost stories and folklore, as I am a very big fan of Japanese horror cinema. I spent one year living in Japan and studying at Keio University in Tokyo. It was during this year that I picked up a lot of my material. In my final year at university, I completed a 12,000 word dissertation on the representation of women in Japanese horror film, in comparison to that of Hollywood and remakes of Asian horror.