In an effort to revive the deserted village of Nagoro on the island of Shikoku in Japan, an individual has taken an unusual approach to keep the village bustling.Tsunami Ayono created creepy life-sized dolls and placed them throughout the village to deceive visitors into believing the area is bustling with activity.
The human-like dolls can be found scattered across schools, bus stops, coffee shops, and even construction sites in Nagoro, according to Daily Star.Google reviewer Gareth Morris said: "Equal parts fascinating, touching and creepy, the scarecrow village is an homage to the former residents of this now-near-deserted mountain village.
The mountain roads make it more than a little hair-raising to get to, though the trip was definitely worth the trouble."Antonio Ezio Frascarelli added, "This village is...
I don't know.
A concept between scary, weird, peaceful...
You'll see dozens of scarecrows on the way to the 'village center'.
Placed where normally humans do stuff.
An entire room has been filled with 'not-people' reading, sleeping or talking among each other.
The most weird part is the school.
Everything is clean, and well kept by the locals, but seeing the building, with shadows at the windows watching outside, and no other sound than the river and the cicadas is unsettling."Tsunami's dolls started as something small, but have since gained a life of their own, and outnumber locals by 10 to one, according to Daily Star."I've always made dolls as a hobby.
I never thought that my hobby would turn out like this, Tsunami said."Now that the number of dolls has increased, people from all over the country and even from abroad have come to see them.
This town has become very lively."