🦶 Cryptids of Japan
＋ File sighting7 cryptids and mysterious creatures reported in Japan, with their legends and sightings.
Nure-onna (濡女, “wet woman”) circulates today as a three-hundred-metre sea serpent with a woman's head, who lures travellers with a baby that turns ...
Akkorokamui is the giant octopus said to be the lord of Uchiura Bay — Funka Bay, Volcano Bay: three names for one sheet of water in south-west Hokk...
The gashadokuro is a giant skeleton said to assemble itself from the unburied bones of the war dead and the starved — and unlike almost any other m...
Kuchisake-onna, the "slit-mouthed woman", is not old folklore but a rumour with a traceable start date. A woman in a face mask stops a passer-by, u...
The Hibagon (ヒバゴン) is a dark-haired, ape-like biped reported around Mount Hiba, in what is now the city of Shōbara in Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan. ...
The tsuchinoko is Japan's fat snake: a creature 30 to 80 centimetres long with a midsection as thick as a beer bottle, a small triangular head, and...
The kappa is a water-dwelling creature from Japanese folklore, usually described as roughly child-sized, with green or yellow scaly or slimy skin, ...