This phallic temple was erected in the forest to honor the tragic death of a samurai lord's son.

This amusement park brings a little slice of England to the heart of Kyushu.

This mysterious medieval grotto holds a grid of sacred wells of unknown purpose.

Tell this pair of "love-inviting" cats in Ginza your romantic hopes.

According to one legend, this bridge was crafted after monkeys formed a body-bridge across the gorge.

Nope, not the one in France. The only officially-recognized reproduction of Monet’s garden in Giverny is located in a remote corner of Japan.

The world's longest tunnel with an undersea section.

An ingenious solution to a tricky engineering problem, this spiraling bridge takes drivers for a dizzying spin.

These wondrously illuminated caverns extend under the mountains of the Fukushima Prefecture.

The Yonaguni Monument, a natural formation or the Japanese Atlantis?

A bibliophile's heaven that contains hundreds of bookstores, offering over a third of secondhand books for sale in Tokyo.

One of the largest producers of MSG in the world welcomes visitors to its Kawasaki factory with an albino panda named Aji-Kun.

This traditional Japanese-style house doubles as one of James Turrell's colorful works of art.

The cutest shrine in Kyoto is dedicated to bunnies.

Ever needed a chocolate-filled crepe in the wee hours of the morning?

You can still find treasures on the pebbly beaches of one of the world's oldest jade-producing areas.

It's bad manners to eat and drink on the subways of Tokyo, unless the train is this bar. 

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

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

The small candy-colored ride is the last rooftop Ferris wheel in Tokyo.

The ruin of a Japanese love hotel almost completely overgrown with brambles.

This bridge is so steep it looks like a rollercoaster.

A network of sandy streets lined with verdant fukugi trees weaves throughout this tiny seaside town.

A massive wintry wall of snow up to 66 feet tall flanks a highway through Japan's mountains.