Japanese "Ghost Town" Shonai Eigamura, Tsuruoka | What looks like an old and abandoned Japanese village is actually just a movie set. Many of the latest Japanese Samurai movies where filmed here. There are reconstructions of a farming village, a fishing village and a post town of the Edo period (1603–1867). Abandoned Houses, Abandoned Places, Abandoned Village, Abandoned Mansions, Japan Village, Kubo And The Two Strings, Japanese Buildings, Japanese Architecture, Japanese House