Near the mouth of the Yodo River, this museum offers visitors six floors of hands-on learning about Osaka's raw sewage.

This giant seated Bhudda of Healing dates to the 1780s.

Birthplace of the Tendai sect and home to the marathon monks.

This little town supplies Japan with most of its calligraphy brushes, still made by hand from animal fur.

A collection of more than 1,000 teddies from nearly any profession.

One of the bloodiest and most important battles in Japanese history is recreated with kitschy concrete statues.

The world's longest tunnel with an undersea section.

On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.

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

The sound of swaying stalks in this stunning grove has been named a governmentally recognized sound.

A magical place that lets you play in and explore the world of Studio Ghibli.

An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.

Japan's largest and oldest annual procession of floats, begun in 869.