This sawtooth mountain range still bears the strangely lovely marks of its history as a medieval quarry.

Weighing nearly 7 tons, this massive sculpture was carved out of 500-year-old wood and decorated with thousands of jewels.

An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.

Japanese national treasure originally built in 593 CE.

This shrine dedicated to a legendary swordsman has become a pilgrimage site for the ill and infirmed.

Access to this hidden site of a 14th-century mass suicide is prohibited, unless it is to pray for the dead.

A taste of the macabre Tokyo's ritzy shopping district.

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

Next door to Tokyo DisneySea is a giant sculpture created by Taro Okamoto symbolizing the dynamism of life.

Cabaret where the show girls are all androids, and the patrons couldn't be more pleased.