Take a Google Street view through this Japanese town and find out what's odd...

[editor]

https://www.google.com/maps/@33.856...ata=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sHOoUvTsq_J5g5qrqExtA9w!2e0

I'll reveal more later, but give it a spin and see what you find!

 

[fishfinger]

Ghost town?

 

[free spirit]

it's made me really glad that we went for underground electric cables in this country rather than all of them being pole mounted like there.

 

[dessiato]

Interesting. I wonder why the town has been set up like this.

Spoiler

the people in the pictures aren't real people

 

[UnderOpenSky]

The weird figures?

 

[what]

Great scarecrows

 

[fishfinger]

Interesting. I wonder why the town has been set up like this.

Spoiler

the people in the pictures aren't real people

Yes, I noticed that too.

 

[Voley]

How very odd. What's that all about then?

 

[cesare]

Is it this? http://www.euronews.com/2013/03/28/google-offers-a-virtual-journey-in-the-ghost-town-of-fukushima/

 

[8ball]

Driving into a fake town being tailed by a suspicious motorbike...

 

[editor]

More here: http://www.theverge.com/2014/5/2/5674448/nagoro-japanese-doll-village-photos-video

 

[Dr_Herbz]

The residents were abducted by aliens and replaced with rag doll cyborgs. The only reason it was discovered was because Google didn't hide their unearthly cyborg faces.

 

[editor]

 

[fishfinger]

Spoiler: Major spoiler

Edit: I'm too slow again. Thanks editor

 

[Voley]

I enjoyed that. Freaky looking place: the bit in the school reminded me of that Indiana Jones movie where he ends up in a mock town that's about to be annihilated by a nuclear blast.