An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.

Disaster prevention apartment blocks in Sumida Ward are designed to save as many as possible in the face of the inevitable.

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

Turn around and stick your head between your legs for the best view of this tree-covered sandbar.

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

Birthplace of the Tendai sect and home to the marathon monks.

An abandoned giant glass dome sits in the bay in “the Venice of the East.”

An infamous house made famous by director Takashi Shimizu.

This high-design church is made up of two dizzying spirals meant to evoke the weaving together of marriage.

Burial mound for the ears and noses of thousands of mutilated Korean soldiers.

The divine septet of Japanese fortune gods are rendered in 1,000 year old wood at this peaceful site.

Children's literature inside, forest all around.

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

This ruined Japanese stripclub sits half burnt to the ground.

Tokyo’s only Vaudeville-cuckoo clock–steampunk-Victorian curio cabinet time piece.

Thirty architectural gems from the 19th- and early 20th-century Tokyo were restored and relocated to this space.

An astounding annual light display honors the victims of one of Japan's most devastating earthquakes.

A restaurant modeled after feudal Japan, where the waitstaff are trained as ninjas.

An anthropological theme park that depicts the cultures of around 20 different countries.

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

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

This Buddhist temple is home to the graves of the Japanese national legends, the 47 Ronin.

Drinkslinger is an unlikely vocation for a Buddhist monk, but at this Tokyo bar the enlightenment is served in a martini glass.

A giant robo-cockroach building devours Tokyo.