-
Compellingly creepy collection of retro mailboxes stands in rural Japanese town【Photos】
投稿日 2021年5月28日 02:30:58 (ニュース)
-
続・お知らせ。海外セレブゴシップ&ニュース
-
お知らせ
-
We spot the legendary dekotora Aki Kannon, dedicated to actress and singer Aki Yashiro
-
New Pokémon GU collaboration dresses all the family, including babies for the first time
-
How do European Cup Noodles taste to a Japanese palate?
-
We’ve been doing it wrong – Japanese genius shows us how we should all be making sandwiches【Pics】
-
The future is now with full face sunglasses
-
Natto-infused ramen is a thing — we tried it, we love it【Taste test】
-
Jellyfish and Halloween in perfect harmony at Sumida Aquarium event
-
Japanese toilet paper collection opens our minds as we open our butts
-
Aomori police on the lookout for man shouting unsolicited advice at kids about dating and ramen
-
Former Arashi members Sho Sakurai and Masaki Aiba get married… Wait, that didn’t come out right
-
Creator of Japan’s longest-running manga, Golgo 13, passes away, leaves fans one last gift
-
Crazy cheap cosplay at Daiso? How to transform into Dragon Ball’s Vegeta at the discount shop
-
7 Halloween-themed afternoon teas you won’t want to miss this year
-
Krispy Kreme Japan creates doughnut burgers that are a meal and two desserts all in one【Photos】
-
Get in the damn drift car, Shinji? Evangelion Tomika toy brings D1 machine home in miniature form
-
Demon Slayer Nichiren Blades ready for new duty: Slicing through your sweets as dessert knives
-
Man in Japan arrested for breaking into ex-girlfriend’s apartment to steal her Nintendo Switch
-
The Japanese Internet chooses the top too-sexy-for-their-own-good male voices in anime
-
First-ever Studio Ghibli x Russell Athletic range pays homage to My Neighbour Totoro
-
Super Nintendo World at Universal Studios Japan announces first expansion with new Donkey Kong area
-
Cup Noodle pouch satisfies our never-ending need for instant ramen
-
Retro Japanese train is our new favourite office space
-
How do Japanese fans feel about Netflix’s live-action Cowboy Bebop opening sequence?
-
We try Uniqlo coffee at first-ever cafe inside Ginza flagship store
-
The number of elderly people in Japan this year has yet again smashed multiple records
-
Mr. Sato broadens his home drinking horizons at Kaldi【Japan’s Best Home Senbero】
-
We try Japanese Twitter’s newest trend the Penguin Egg, end up hatching something very disturbing
-
Takoyaki makers surprisingly good at grilling meat for yakiniku too
Sponsored Link
Sort of nostalgic, sort of scary, and very, very bizarre.
Saitama Prefecture’s Ogose seems like the quintessential nondescript small town, too rural to be exciting yet also too developed to be ideally bucolic picturesque. But sometimes it’s the most ordinary-seeming places that hide the oddest surprises, and Japanese Twitter user @enuenuenubi found an extremely weird one on a recent visit.
Next to a rustic wooden house in Ogose is a row of decommissioned mailboxes.
Each and every one of them is the old-school red pillar design, a type of mailbox that’s becoming less and less common in Japan. Leaving old mail boxes outside your home, however, isn’t an established landscaping motif in Japan, like, say, setting out old stone lanterns. There’s no sign explaining the mailboxes’ presence, either. They’re just…there…seemingly hungering for your soul to fill the empty space inside them where people used to drop their letters and postcards.
Oh, and there’s also a gigantic triceratops statue, because why not?
No fewer than 16 mailboxes are lined up, and the somewhat unnerving nostalgia on display has prompted comments such as:
“This would be so creepy if you stumbled on it in the middle of the night.”
“You can almost hear them moaning out of their mail-slot mouths.”
“I bet you one of them comes alive at night and walks around the town.”
“Youkai mail boxes!”
役目を終えたポストたちが集まる不思議な場所がありました。これだけ沢山並んでるんだし、ひとつくらいはここじゃないどこかに手紙を届けてくれたならばステキなお話だ。(トリケラトプスよ何故お前もいる) pic.twitter.com/SGdhbEl9Hf
Sponsored Link
— えぬびい (@enuenuenubi) May 20, 2021
It turns out that the plot of land is owned by Kannabe Doken, a local construction firm that apparently owns a few other properties in the town with their own individual brands of weirdness, such as the building with a rusted-out car on its roof…
…the courtyard with statues of Buzz Lightyear, Santa Claus, giant Peter Rabbit, the bikini girl from the Umi Monogatari pachinko series, and anime robots Tetsujin 28 and Mazinger Z (the latter stationed at the top of a lookout tower)…
…and, naturally, what looks to be a separate collection of mailboxes at another site.
As for why Kannabe Doken is collecting old mailboxes, an employee for the firm simply says “Our company president likes this sort of thing,” and it makes a certain sort of twisted logic. After all, if a man’s home is his castle, then surely the surrounding property can be his kingdom of weirdness.
Source: Twitter/@enuenuenubi, IT Media
Images: Twitter/@enuenuenubi
● Want to hear about SoraNews24’s latest articles as soon as they’re published? Follow us on Facebook and Twitter!
Source: SORA NEWS24
Sponsored Link
最新情報