A disconnected rotary phone for "calling" lost loved ones offered a unique way of dealing with grief in disaster-stricken Japan.

Elaborate series of tunnels where traces of mass suicide are still visible.

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

Historical Japanese-Dutch relations are honored with haunted rides and flower fields in this replica town.

The world’s first hotel to be run by robots.

A rare festival blending religion, blacksmiths, vagina dentata, sex workers, and the straight-up facts of life.

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

Starship-temple contains 400 tons of drinking water and offers free Japanese lessons.

One of the first hotel rooms in a pod.

Underground farm located in a former bank vault deep within the bowels of Tokyo's business district.

Japanese company creates clone dolls that reside in the "uncanny valley."

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

This historical theme park celebrates all things noodle.

The original "capsule building" is a masterpiece of Metabolist architecture.

This spa theme park lets its guests take a dip in pools of coffee, wine, or ramen broth.

Experience park where visitors are told to expect the unexpected.

Every autumn, this hillside is ablaze with red summer cypress.

Cabaret where the show girls are all androids, and the patrons couldn't be more pleased.

The abandoned Japanese amusement park once loomed as a dystopian Disneyland.

This faux-seedy Japanese arcade is made up to look like a maze of alleys straight out of a cyberpunk dystopia.

A magical place that lets you play in and explore the world of Studio Ghibli.

An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.