Doai Station

Japan’s deepest train station feels almost like an initiation ritual. To reach the platform, you descend nearly 500 steps into a dim, dripping tunnel known locally as the ‘Mole Station’. The temperature drops, the sound dulls and, halfway down, your phone loses signal. When the train finally arrives, its lights slice through total black – a moment that feels staged for a horror game. The return climb is quiet and claustrophobic, the kind of exhaustion that borders on trance.