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

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

This temple is steeped in local folklore involving a teakettle and a raccoon dog.

One of the largest producers of MSG in the world welcomes visitors to its Kawasaki factory with an albino panda named Aji-Kun.

Thirty architectural gems from the 19th- and early 20th-century Tokyo were restored and relocated to this space.

An infamous house made famous by director Takashi Shimizu.

More tin toys than you can shake a clapping monkey at.

This seven story Japanese love hotel now stands in ruins.

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

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

A sculpture that resurrected the only tree standing following the devastating 2011 tsunami.

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

A tiny cafe that recreates the Japanese elementary school lunch experience.

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

We heard you like volcanoes so we put a volcano in your volcano so you can die for sure...

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

A restaurant modeled after feudal Japan, where the waitstaff are trained as ninjas.

Be a ninja - or just act like one.

Largest graveyard in all of Japan surrounds a famous mausoleum.

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

The tallest bronze seated statue of the Buddha in Japan.

This ruined Japanese stripclub sits half burnt to the ground.

The world’s first hotel to be run by robots.

A massive cave complex boasts some of the clearest water (and most charming bats) in the world.