When this massive wooden temple ran out of rope, they made one out of devotees' hair.

Have a soak at this retro bathhouse, where you will find Japan's first electric bath, tiling from Spain, and wood carvings representing the Japanese invasion of Manchuria.

This museum is dedicated to the cultural history of tobacco and salt, once monopolized in Japan.

A few hidden stones are said to bring fortune and love.

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

Legend says the goddess this shrine honors curses any couples that pass by.

The world's longest tunnel with an undersea section.

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

If you forgot something to read during your trip to Tokyo, this hostel has you covered.

Rows of stone statues are dressed up to mourn children that are lost before birth.

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

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

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

Established over a thousand years ago, this family-run teahouse continues to serve skewers of sweet rice cake to this day.

Discover the past, present, and future of packaging in this unique Japanese museum.

One of Kyoto's oldest food establishments has supplied soba noodles to temple priests and the Imperial Palace.

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

An unexpected curiosity cabinet hidden within a department store in the Japan Post tower.

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

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

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

Meet the world's longest tapeworm in a collection that really gets under your skin.

Tokyo’s only Ainu restaurant serves Indigenous food from northern Japan.

This subterranean spot might be the epitome of Japan's baroque, retro coffee houses.