Perhaps the world's cheapest vending machines.

This bar is filled with Star Wars merchandise from around the world, all of it unlicensed knockoffs.

The abandoned Japanese amusement park once loomed as a dystopian Disneyland.

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

This historical theme park celebrates all things noodle.

The world's shortest escalator doesn't seem to have any reason to exist other than to hold a world record.

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

A plaque marks the site directly below the mid-air detonation of the atomic bomb over Hiroshima.

A small shrine dedicated to a god of lightning and electronics.

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

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

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

This Kyoto Starbucks takes coffee drinkers back in time.

A beautiful bamboo trail tucked in this famous Japanese Shrine.

The quintessential Japanese rock garden has existed for more than 500 years.

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

Twelve hundred stone carvings guard this off-the-beaten-path Buddhist temple.

The 10,000 Torii shrine.

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

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

Home to a legend of the supernatural raccoon dog, a rare wooden structure of Edo, and witnesses of the Tokyo bombings.

A cursed torii gate still stands on the edge of Haneda Airport, decades after its shrine's relocation.

Stuck in a bygone era, the oldest subterranean shopping street in Japan hides beneath the popular Asakusa district of Tokyo.

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