🦶 Cryptids of Japan
＋ File sighting7 cryptids and mysterious creatures reported in Japan, with their legends and sightings.
Along the rocky coasts and river mouths of northern Japan, storytellers describe Nure-onna, the "wet woman," a yokai with the head of a beautiful w...
Ainu communities along Hokkaido's Uchiura Bay have long spoken of Akkorokamui, a crimson, glowing mass said to surge from the depths and drag boats...
Gashadokuro is a giant yokai skeleton in Japanese folklore, said to form from the piled, unburied bones of soldiers and famine victims who died wit...
Kuchisake-onna, the "Slit-Mouthed Woman," is a modern Japanese urban legend describing a pale woman wearing a surgical mask who stops passersby, us...
The Hibagon is a Bigfoot-like cryptid said to inhabit the forests of Mount Hiba in Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan, described as a large, dark-haired, ...
The tsuchinoko is a legendary snake-like creature from Japanese folklore, described as short and unusually thick-bodied, sometimes said to have fan...
The kappa is a water-dwelling creature from Japanese folklore, usually described as roughly child-sized, with green or yellow scaly or slimy skin, ...