Bioluminescent firefly squid light up this Japanese fishing port.

Experience park where visitors are told to expect the unexpected.

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

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

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

Modern Japanese museum is buried by snow annually.

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

Sulphuric gases inhabit a beautiful Japanese island.

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

This ruined Japanese stripclub sits half burnt to the ground.

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

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

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

Open-air museum with an elaborate sculpture garden, stretching for over 70,000 square-meters.

The third-tallest statue in the world depicts the "Buddha of Infinite Light," complete with observation deck in his chest.

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

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

The largest collection of model trains in the world is actually run using full-size locomotive technology.

This historical theme park celebrates all things noodle.

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

Oddly touching memorial to a little-remembered nuclear tragedy.

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

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

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