An astounding annual light display honors the victims of one of Japan's most devastating earthquakes.

Japan's largest collection of Western-style mansions in the port city of Kobe includes a recreation of Sherlock Holmes' 221B Baker Street quarters.

The iconic castle that withstood a magnitude 6.2 earthquake has become a symbol of resilience.

These Japanese ruins have been brought back to life with elaborately recreated buildings.

The tallest bronze seated statue of the Buddha in Japan.

A strange tribute to all the fallen souls of war.

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

This massive wooden building contains a giant Buddha, healing pillars, and tame deer wandering the grounds.

Devoted Buddhists can earn enlightenment in the next life by crawling through this symbolic nostril.

Once the most densely populated place in the world, this island is now a ghost town.

The statue's head is one of the few fragments of the original Urakami Cathedral to survive the atomic bomb.

This town near Nagasaki is flecked with fruit-flavored bus stops.

A hub of information on tropical diseases and their treatments.

A sobering scientific reminder of the human damage caused by the advent of the nuclear age.

The giant figure on the back of this turtle-shaped temple actually hides a memorial pendulum.

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

This beautiful defunct water tower adds a European flair to a traditional Japanese neighborhood.

The ruins of Japan’s premier water brothel.

This ruined Japanese stripclub sits half burnt to the ground.

A beautiful bamboo trail tucked in this famous Japanese Shrine.

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

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

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

This neighborhood thoroughfare is haunted by dozens of homemade monsters.