Shrine dedicated to boars that is believed to cure foot and leg injuries.

A remote and slightly overgrown park filled with replicas of world landmarks.

One of the largest producers of MSG in the world welcomes visitors to its Kawasaki factory with an albino panda named Aji-Kun.

After being lost for decades, this striking mural depicting the atomic bomb covers the wall of a busy Tokyo metro station.

Roots and stumps that lay inundated for two millennia are on display in Japan's city of three mysteries.

You can still find treasures on the pebbly beaches of one of the world's oldest jade-producing areas.

This adorable birdlike police box is designed based on a play on words.

This traditional Japanese-style house doubles as one of James Turrell's colorful works of art.

An abandoned Art Deco hotel nestled on the side of a wooded mountain.

A dilapidated amusement park with a million-dollar view.

It's bad manners to eat and drink on the subways of Tokyo, unless the train is this bar. 

This giant bronze Buddha, the third largest in Japan, is the last in an ill-fated series of statues.

A semi-abandoned replica of Prince Edward Island's Avonlea—in Japan.

A sculpture that resurrected the only tree standing following the devastating 2011 tsunami.

The world's shortest escalator doesn't seem to have any reason to exist other than to hold a world record.

A small Japanese village claims to be the final resting place of the son of God (and God's other son's ear).

Devoted Buddhists can earn enlightenment in the next life by crawling through this symbolic nostril.

An eerie maze of industrial factories looks like something out of a dystopian sci-fi.

The traditional houses along the coast of this charming Japanese fishing village allow people to sleep above the sea.

Giant art made in Japanese rice fields.

A mysterious set of tunnels carved in the hills of rural northern Kyushu.

This mountain's identity is stuck somewhere between a nightmare and a scenic tourist attraction.

The small candy-colored ride is the last rooftop Ferris wheel in Tokyo.

Make your own fake treats at this factory and workshop in the epicenter of Japan's food replica industry.