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

An infamous house made famous by director Takashi Shimizu.

A Catholicism-themed restaurant where sacrilege is on the menu.

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

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

Shells collected from over a hundred different countries line the walls, floors and ceilings of this fantasy museum.

This little replica of Lady Liberty provides a bit of NYC in a Japanese city.

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

A small island with no monkeys but plenty of military ruins.

Not quite the menace it once was, this monster still has some chops.

A giant robo-cockroach building devours Tokyo.

A 59-ft. robot statue looks over the citizens of earthquake-ravaged Kobe.

Unlikely place for krautrock legends to hang out.

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

A Japanese concept restaurant that feels like a party thrown by the monsters in your closet.

Be a ninja - or just act like one.

Peace Park and the Atomic Bomb Dome.

A failed Russian themed village and amusement park in Niigata prefecture.

A 70-foot-deep ice cave formed by lava from Mt. Fuji on the edge of Japan's "Suicide Forest." 

Every color in the rainbow awaits.

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

One of the first hotel rooms in a pod.

A beautiful bamboo trail tucked in this famous Japanese Shrine.

A 20-meter (65-foot) robot towers over Tokyo Bay.