visitant may remark something unsettling about Nagoro , Japan . After years of younger residents go to cities and erstwhile residents dying off , the townsfolk ’s population has dwindle down toless than 30people . But Nagoro is far from empty . Thanks to the hundreds of creepy dolls displayed throughout the village , there ’s scarcely a place you’re able to go without getting the flavor you ’re being watched .
According toAtlas Obscura , there are at least 350 scarecrows , orkakashiin Japanese , populating the hamlet of Nagoro in southern Japan . An creative person and native resident physician named Tsukimi Ayano pop making them after moving back to her hometown around 2002 .
Tsukimi spent most of her adult biography in Osaka , Japan , and was saddened to discover that her birthplace was quickly becoming a specter townspeople . She was pep up to repopulate the Ithiel Town with dummies after making a scarecrow modeled after her father to keep birds out ofher garden . The life - sized doll remind her of how her dwelling once was , and she thought , why not do the same thing for the relief of the townsfolk ?
Tsukimi got to work building drinking straw - scarf out recreations of Nagoro ’s former resident and pose them around the small town miming various activities . Today , the uncanny memorials can be spot in hard hats doing road oeuvre , gardening in yard , and canvas in abandoned classrooms .
Nagoro ’s universe of shape - and - blood humankind is still slim , but Tsukimi ’s artistic production project appeal thousands of tourists each year . She even host scarecrow - making workshops every calendar month from April to November , and in October , there ’s an intact scarecrow fete .
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