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

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

The magical, mossy forest that inspired Princess Mononoke.

If Hello Kitty were Mickey Mouse, this would be Disneyland.

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.

A magical place that lets you play in and explore the world of Studio Ghibli.

This snack factory boasts several tributes to its popular line of rice crackers, including a quasi-shrine.

Nope, not the one in France. The only officially-recognized reproduction of Monet’s garden in Giverny is located in a remote corner of Japan.

Legend says the goddess this shrine honors curses any couples that pass by.

A 14th-century European chapel sticks out of the facade of a Japanese hotel.

This 14th-century temple is also known as the "Temple of the Golden Pavilion" for its gorgeous gilded reliquary hall.

A bibliophile's heaven that contains hundreds of bookstores, offering over a third of secondhand books for sale in Tokyo.

A small Japanese village claims to be the final resting place of the son of God (and God's other son's ear).

The small candy-colored ride is the last rooftop Ferris wheel in Tokyo.

Oddly touching memorial to a little-remembered nuclear tragedy.

One of the world's largest tanks mimics the experience of watching rare whale sharks, giant rays, and deep sea creatures from the ocean floor.