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 ...

On the surface, Nagoro is like any other sleepy village in southern Japan. Until you realize the town’s “villagers” are actually life-size scarecrows – and they outnumber human residents ...

Tsukimi Ayano stands in a classroom with scarecrows at a closed-down school in the village of Nagoro on Shikoku Island in southern Japan on Feb. 24, 2015. Photo by Thomas Peter/Reuters Atlas ...

Nagoro, a remote village in Tokushima Prefecture on Shikoku Island—one of the four main islands of Japan—would have remained an anonymous dot on the map if it was not for the creative genius ...

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has become a go-to place on the dark tourist's bucket list thanks to the way the declining population of humans have been replaced by life-sized dolls ...

THIS village was on the cusp of being abandoned for years, until it was suddenly repopulated – by one lone woman. But these are no ordinary citizens, these are 350 life-size dolls, handmade t… ...

THIS village was on the cusp of being abandoned for years, until it was suddenly repopulated – by one lone woman. But these are no ordinary citizens, these are 350 life-size dolls, handmade t… ...

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.