Aya Iwasawa, who works in the aquarium's fish display division, said, "The arrow crab is also popular, and it looks like the yokai 'tenaga-ashinaga' ('long arms, long legs')." ...

While the main focus will be on meat, Yokai will also cook up fish and seafood, including steamed whole Japanese sea bream and King salmon belly skewers with matcha, buttermilk and dill.

Three-eyed monsters, a serpent with eight heads, a monster cat, slimy fish creatures and a freaky bugged-eyed spider. Not to forget a kimono-clad woman with a stretchable head.

Sukioka Yoshitoshi's The heavy basket 1892. Credit: National Gallery of Australia, Canberra Easily Japan’s most popular yokai, kappa are frog-like humanoids with tortoiseshell backs and water ...