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Did You Know a Japanese Village Has More Dolls Than People? The Eerie Charm of Nagoro. Japan’s rural population has been ...

Take a virtual trip through the Doll Village of Nagoro, Japan, where life-size dolls are the residents.

In the tiny village of Nagoro, deep in the mountains of western Japan, the wind howls down a deserted street with not a living soul to be seen.

Nestled in the valleys of Shikoku, Japan, Nagoro Doll Village offers a unique spectacle. Internationally recognized, it features hundreds of life-sized dolls, each crafted to represent residents ...

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, ...

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.

A village full of dolls exists in Japan's town of Nagoro filling in place of the place's aging and lost population with no human birth in the region for more than twenty years.This community was ...