Closed for decades, this strange symbol of Japan's Expo '70 has finally opened its psychedelic insides to the public.

A Japanese train station built around a 700-year-old camphor tree.

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

Twelve hundred stone carvings guard this off-the-beaten-path Buddhist temple.

A beautiful bamboo trail tucked in this famous Japanese Shrine.

1,001 carved statues of the Buddhist God of Mercy, each with a unique face.

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

Crawl through the hole in the middle of this stone to break off a bad relationship or initiate a good one.

This Kyoto Starbucks takes coffee drinkers back in time.

A shrine contains nearly 200 statues of the Buddhist deity Jizo, dressed in bibs by parents who have lost a child.

The cemetery houses the remains of Jun’ichirō Tanizaki, one of Japan's most famous novelists.

A Japanese cat island also populated by the descendants of a band of banished samurai.

Giant animal sculptures are created with the rice straw leftover from the fall harvest each year.

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

This pond is so stunning it looks like you've stepped into one of Monet's masterpieces.

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

This isolated Japanese mountain village untouched by time showcases unique and stunning traditional architecture.

Bioluminescent firefly squid light up this Japanese fishing port.

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

This ancient temple is set up to take you on a pilgrimage of self.

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

A remarkable lava formation encloses a line of Buddhist statues that can't be accurately counted, according to local mythology.

Cherry blossom season comes early in this Japanese town where pink flowers line the streets and riverbanks.

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