Kisaragi Station

Kisaragi Station (Japanese: きさらぎ駅, Hepburn: Kisaragi Eki) is a Japanese urban legend about a fictitious railway station.[1][2][3] The station first came into the news in 2004, when the story was posted on the internet forum 2channel.[4]

The Enshū Railway Line, the setting for the urban legend of Kisaragi Station.[1]

Plot

On 8 January 2004, a person calling herself "Hasumi" (葉純) posted on the internet noticeboard 2channel about a bizarre experience in the thread "Post About Strange Occurrences Around You: Thread 26", the tale recounted how Hasumi awoke in a train carriage with all other passengers asleep. As Hasumi struggled with the mystery, she would constantly have exchanges with users at the message board, advising her and sharing the confusion. It was her routine commute to work, but the train was barrelling to a destination without stops. The conductor and driver were both inaccessible.

Finally, after an hour, the train stopped at "Kisaragi Station" late into the night – a lot of no discernible activity. Consulting with users online at their thread, Hasumi was advised there is no such station listed online and she should exit immediately. As Hasumi wandered outside the station, and took advice from people on the message board, she tried to locate a taxi. Defeated, she discovered a telephone booth, dialed her parents and requested they collect her, but they were unable to determine where she was. Her parents urged her to contact emergency services as "lost" – this would prove futile when they dismissed her as a prankster.

Hasumi's experience soon became more ominous – bells ringing from the station, a drumbeat intensifying and the overall location completely unidentifiable. Terrified to return into the station with an otherworldly festival transpiring, she climbed onto nearby tracks. Abruptly, somebody screamed, "Hey! Don't walk on the track, that's dangerous!" Turning around, Hasumi witnessed a one-legged old man, not an attendant, who immediately vanished. In a state of panic, Hasumi fled along the track rashly and into a darkened tunnel, stumbling and injuring herself.

She soon reached the end of the tunnel and was welcomed by a friendly man who offered a ride to safety – unusual for this hour and also at such a location. Without any other choices, Hasumi accepted and accompanied the man into a summoned train headed into distant mountains. The man became quiet and Hasumi was unnerved as her surroundings became increasingly unfamiliar.

Hasumi's last message board post was: "My battery's almost run out. Things are getting strange, so I think I'm going to make a run for it. He's been talking to himself about bizarre things for a while now. To prepare for just the right time, I'm going to make this my last post for now."

References
  1. 吉田史弥[needs translation] (9 January 2018). 遠鉄「きさらぎ駅」？　消えた「はすみ」さん、都市伝説１０年超 [Enshū's "Kisaragi Station"? The disappearance of "Hasumi" and an urban legend over 10 years old]. Shizuoka Shimbun (in Japanese). p. 3. Retrieved 24 September 2023.
  2. 吉田悠軌[needs translation] (2 November 2018). 禁足地巡礼 [Pilgrimage to a forbidden place]. Fusosha Shinsho (in Japanese). Tokyo: Fusosha. pp. 183–202. ISBN 978-4-594-08083-9.
  3. 朝里樹[needs translation] (17 January 2018). 日本現代怪異事典 [Encyclopedia of Modern Japanese Legends] (in Japanese). Tokyo: Kasama Shoin. pp. 42, 116–117, 241, 386. ISBN 978-4-305-70859-5.
  4. 身のまわりで変なことが起こったら実況するスレ26 [Post About Strange Occurrences Around You: Thread 26]. Kakolog (in Japanese). Retrieved 17 September 2023.


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