Case file · Haunting
The Sendagaya tunnel under the graves
Built in a rush for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, the Sendagaya road tunnel runs beneath the Senju-in temple cemetery, and Tokyo's best-known tunnel ghost stories followed.
1964 CE · 35.68, 139.71 · status: legend
The account
Drivers tell of a woman's figure on the ceiling and faces in the dripping walls. The tunnel was built without moving the graves above.
The sceptical view
An urban legend that grows from knowing the cemetery is overhead.