Blowtorches, tuna, and a jolly, chain-smoking proprietor mark this beloved street-food stand.

Established over a thousand years ago, this family-run teahouse continues to serve skewers of sweet rice cake to this day.

The world's largest drain sits below the city of Kasukabe, Japan.

A train ride to the middle of nowhere gives its passengers some of the most iconic views of Japan's seasons.

Tokyo’s only Ainu restaurant serves Indigenous food from northern Japan.

Hanging over one of Japan's "hidden valleys," these vine bridges must be remade every three years.

This neighborhood thoroughfare is haunted by dozens of homemade monsters.

This 700-year-old street food market features baby octopus and soy donuts.

Hot springs monkey spa in the middle of Hell's Valley.

This town near Nagasaki is flecked with fruit-flavored bus stops.

A giant robo-cockroach building devours Tokyo.

As the aging humans of this Japanese village die off one local artisan is replacing them with eerie homonculi.

Kawaii meets poisonous at this unique art gallery.

For hundreds of years, participants in this Japanese festival have been making babies cry to ward off demons.

This active volcano's siren song to suicide jumpers forced authorities to build a fence.

Giant animal sculptures are created with the rice straw leftover from the fall harvest each year.

Giant sand sculptures of famous people and places are on display near the Tottori sand dunes.

An unlikely hit, this museum is dedicated to the inventor of instant ramen and cup noodles.

One of the world's largest tanks mimics the experience of watching rare whale sharks, giant rays, and deep sea creatures from the ocean floor.

The cutest shrine in Kyoto is dedicated to bunnies.

One of Kyoto's oldest food establishments has supplied soba noodles to temple priests and the Imperial Palace.

Enormous underground chamber built to detect 'ghost particles' of the universe.

A steaming, boiling hellscape sources Hokkaido's thermal baths.

Unusual hexagonal rocks formed by cooling lava named for their resemblance to traditional Japanese tatami mats.