This temple is steeped in local folklore involving a teakettle and a raccoon dog.

"The Dance of Fools" is Japan's largest dance festival.

This incredible mountainside temple is home to intriguing statues of demon-like creatures.

Japan's first automaton went missing, only to be revived by the Osaka Science Museum.

The world's longest tunnel with an undersea section.

A hub of information on tropical diseases and their treatments.

These unique toilets feature transparent glass covered in PDLC film.

One of the world's largest ancient burial mounds.

A Japanese shrine to dolls.

A monk-run winery inside a Buddhist temple celebrates Japan's crown grape varietal.

Narrow passes cut out of mountains surround the medieval capital of Japan.

What's believed to be the country's first shrine is, in Shintō mythology, the annual meeting place of the gods.

This beautiful Japanese garden is a memorial to the samurai who literally wrote the book on business as martial art.

These wondrously illuminated caverns extend under the mountains of the Fukushima Prefecture.

A strange tribute to all the fallen souls of war.

Japan's largest and oldest annual procession of floats, begun in 869.

A thick blanket of beautiful pampas grass cloaks this unique Japanese landscape.

450 dead and frozen fish, proudly on display in Japan.

This historic hydroelectric power plant in Japan has been preserved and is open to the public.

Japan's largest collection of Western-style mansions in the port city of Kobe includes a recreation of Sherlock Holmes' 221B Baker Street quarters.

A Japanese train station built around a 700-year-old camphor tree.

This ancient shrine has been rebuilt every 20 years since the eighth century.

"Bug Bug" Land, a natural park for beetle watching, still hasn't fully recovered from Fukushima's nuclear disaster.

More tin toys than you can shake a clapping monkey at.