The 700-year-old tree in Japan kept being cut off and someone fell ill

According to the word of mouth, every time people tried to cut the camphor tree at Kayashima Station (Osaka), someone died. They believed that the god wanted the living tree to give up cutting and building a station around it.

Kayashima Stationin Neyagawa (Osaka, Japan) is one of Japan's strange stations when built around a large old tree.(Photo: Inhabitat).

When Kayashima station went into operation in 1910, camphor trees were there to cover the rain and rain for passengers.60 years later, the government decided to expand the station to serve the increasing travel needs of the people.In 1972, the construction plan was adopted with the provision of the camphor tree being cut down.(Photo: me de miru neyagawashi no hyakunen).

There are many oral stories about how ancient camphor changed its own destiny.Spoon & Tamago said the tree is attached to a local temple and the gods, news about the tree being cut down raises many grievances in the community.(Photo: Inhabitat).

People rumored that the tree was angry because of the government's decision, many strange coincidence occurred during that time.Many people said they saw a white snake crawling on tree branches, while others said there was smoke rising from here.A worker fell ill after cutting a camphor tree.(Photo: Picssr).

July McAtee, an American with time to live in Japan, shares a more mysterious story about this camphor tree on July's Culture Medium.July's colleagues say that trees exist between stations not because Japanese people like trees or nature, they retain them because of fear and superstition.People tried to cut the camphor tree twice, each time someone died.They believed that the god wanted the living tree to give up cutting and building a station around the tree.(Photo: Inhabitat).

When the station was completed in 1980, the management turned the camphor tree area into a small temple with barricades and shimenawa ropes hanging around.Since then, the 700-year-old camphor holds an important position between Kayashima station.(Photo: Thisiscolossal).