Make your own fake treats at this factory and workshop in the epicenter of Japan's food replica industry.

Elaborate series of tunnels where traces of mass suicide are still visible.

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

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

This ordinary set of steps is a must-see destination for fans of a certain romantic anime.

The ruins of Japan’s premier water brothel.

This “peasant café” in the middle of Tokyo re-creates the atmosphere of the Japanese countryside.

As the aging humans of this Japanese village die off one local artisan is replacing them with eerie homonculi.

This ruined Japanese stripclub sits half burnt to the ground.

Children's literature inside, forest all around.

A museum dedicated to the history of Tokyo's often-overlooked working-class district.

Inside the columbarium, thousands of colorful, high-tech Buddhas guard the ashes of the dead.

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

Be a ninja - or just act like one.

Oddly touching memorial to a little-remembered nuclear tragedy.

An unlikely hit, this museum is dedicated to the inventor of instant ramen and cup noodles.

Giant sand sculptures of famous people and places are on display near the Tottori sand dunes.

Historical Japanese-Dutch relations are honored with haunted rides and flower fields in this replica town.

A railway station takeout shop sells boxed meals in containers shaped like trains and snowmen that hold the country’s abundant regional delicacies.

Serving you alcohol with a side of insanity. Also, costumes!

A disconnected rotary phone for "calling" lost loved ones offered a unique way of dealing with grief in disaster-stricken Japan.

Japan's largest area of "pink moss" turns the hillside bright pink every spring.

A real-life replica of a home from Hayao Miyazaki's beloved movie "My Neighbor Totoro."

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