If the name Okinawa only evokes sunny beaches in your mind, think again. The island is famous for a series of allegedly haunted spots (and some would list the entire island as one big one), but even if you don’t believe in ghosts, the Nakagusuku Kogen Hotel’s pictures will still send chills down your spine.
It was supposed to be a luxury hotel in a beautiful location, perfect to lure in tourists for the 1975 Okinawa Ocean Exposition. However, a series of misfortunes halted the construction right in that year; in the official version, the building company went bankrupt, and part of the land was declared a protected historical landmark. In the unofficial version, monks believed the construction would anger local spirits, many workers agreed with them and boycotted the construction, and the owner spent a night on the property to prove the superstitions wrong but was committed to a mental asylum and then disappeared. Regardless of what version you want to believe, the Nakagusuku Kogen Hotel still stands today as a decaying memorial to the old days of the economic boom.
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