Spooky season is here! Halloween is celebrated on October 31 every year and revolves around fun and creativity, including costumes, lanterns and more. The festival commemorates the dead and has made its way across many cultures and continents. Japan kicks off its Halloween celebrations with ‘zombies’ attacking a bullet train.
On October 19, a regularly scheduled train from Tokyo to Shin-Osaka Station hosted an event in collaboration with Kowagara Setai, offering passengers a literal sense of the super hit South Korean film. Train to Busan.
According to South China Morning Postthe organizers put the actors on the seats as victims, who undergo more terrifying transformations and instill fear in fellow passengers. The video of the event is garnering attention on social media.
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The world’s first! Tokyo and Shin-Osaka#Zombie Shinkansen#Fun@___maria48 pic.twitter.com/GDnUGLRL3J
— Osaka Journal (@kitajournal) 19 October 2024
Event organizer Kenta Ivana of the Kuwagarasetai group, which translates as “dread squad”, aimed to depict the “normally safe, peaceful shinkansen (bullet train)” collapsing in seconds, making it a “running It was the world’s first haunted house experience on the Shinkansen. South China Morning Post Reported
The ticket price for the ‘Haunted Experience’ was 50,000 yen which is around Rs.28,000.
“It was very immersive. And the appearance of so many different types of zombies entertained me all the way,” South China Morning Post A traveler quoted.
The origins of Halloween can be traced back to the ancient Celtic festival known as Samhain. It was believed that on this day the spirits of the dead return to their homes, people pay homage to the spirits by making costumes and lighting allowances.