The town Iwami is known for being the setting for Free!, a popular Japanese swimming anime series. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Picture this: As you are taking a walk on a beach in a sleepy Japanese coastal town as night falls, you come across an isolated, unmoving figure of a stern youth in school uniform. It is only upon approaching on close quarters that you discover that it is in fact an inanimate road sign.
Although some find the schoolboy’s expression and presence “creepy”, Iwami residents have increasingly started taking and sharing photos of the town’s latest tourist attraction, which no one seems to be sure of what they were made for. “The badge is completely a joke, and it doesn’t make much money,” Santec president Kenta Yamamoto, 44, told Japanese newspaper Mainichi Shimbun.
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