Kinugawa Onsen Hotel
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The Kinugawa Onsen Hotel, with its weathered wooden beams and the lingering stench of sulfur in the air, stands as a silent sentinel over a century of whispered secrets, where the soothing embrace of the hot springs masks something far more malignant. Guests retreat to their rooms only to be haunted by the soft padding of invisible feet echoing through empty hallways, the chilling brush of air that precedes the fleeting shadows glimpsed by the onsens edge-ghostly apparitions that seem trapped between this world and whatever lies beyond. Those who linger too long often find themselves ensnared in a web of dread, as if the walls themselves lean closer to listen to their heartbeats, hungry for the tales of the living.