Kisaragi Station
One night in 2004, a woman posted online that her train had stopped at a station that doesn't exist. Then she stopped replying.
What was reported
Late one night in January 2004, a user calling herself Hasumi posted on the Japanese message board 2channel that something was wrong with her train. She said it hadn't stopped for a long time, and the other passengers were asleep. At last it pulled into a station she had never heard of: Kisaragi.
The station was empty. Other users tried to help as she described walking away along the tracks, hearing drums and bells, and meeting strange figures. Her final post said a man had offered her a lift. Then she never posted again.
Explanations offered
There's no Kisaragi station on any Japanese railway, and the story is generally seen as a piece of online fiction, told in real time. It became one of Japan's most famous internet legends, inspiring other stories of 'stations that don't exist' and a film in 2022.
- When
- January 2004
- Where
- Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan
- Witnesses
- An anonymous poster on a Japanese message board
- Status
- Internet legend
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