According to National Geographic, the village of Nagoro, Japan (called “Kakashi no Sato” or “Scarecrow Village”) has a total of 350 dolls in comparison to the 37 humans that still live there.

Confronted with constant departures, she has populated the village with dolls, each representing a former villager. Around 350 of the giant dolls now reside in and around Nagoro, replacing those ...

With her sustained Nagoro residency, Ayano will continue to breathe life into a fading village, one stuffed doll at a time. Travis Levius is a travel writer, content creator and hospitality ...

Nagoro has become a strange fairyland inspired by loss, progress, and mainly, dolls. Ayano steps out of her house in the village of Nagoro, on Feb. 24, 2015. Eric Grundhauser is a head writer and ...

she decided to make life-size dolls to populate her village. According to various interviews Ayano gave to the media over the past few years, she returned to Nagoro, the village of her birth ...

Nagoro in Western Japan has become a go-to place on the dark tourist's bucket list thanks to the way the declining population of humans have been replaced by life-sized dolls ...

But these are no ordinary citizens, these are 350 life-size dolls, handmade to represent the village of Nagoro's former residents - alongside a replica of the former Top Gear presenter James May.

Some people say Tsukimi Ayano makes her life-sized dolls out of loneliness. I don’t know what materials she uses— foam, horsehair—or where the clothes come from, the hats. She was born in Nagoro, ...

According to National Geographic, the village of Nagoro, Japan (called “Kakashi no Sato” or “Scarecrow Village”) has a total of 350 dolls in comparison to the 37 humans that still live there.