This beautiful Japanese garden is a memorial to the samurai who literally wrote the book on business as martial art.

One of Kyoto's oldest food establishments has supplied soba noodles to temple priests and the Imperial Palace.

This tiny museum hidden above a restaurant houses thousands of modern and traditional kites.

Roots and stumps that lay inundated for two millennia are on display in Japan's city of three mysteries.

A flight of this "ghost staircase" has 40 steps on the way up, but only 39 steps on the way down.

An abandoned Art Deco hotel nestled on the side of a wooded mountain.

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

The third-tallest statue in the world depicts the "Buddha of Infinite Light," complete with observation deck in his chest.

The traditional houses along the coast of this charming Japanese fishing village allow people to sleep above the sea.

A mysterious set of tunnels carved in the hills of rural northern Kyushu.

This “peasant café” in the middle of Tokyo re-creates the atmosphere of the Japanese countryside.

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

A network of sandy streets lined with verdant fukugi trees weaves throughout this tiny seaside town.

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

Elaborate series of tunnels where traces of mass suicide are still visible.

The ruins of Japan’s premier water brothel.

Tokyo’s only Ainu restaurant serves Indigenous food from northern Japan.

Founded over a thousand years ago, this shrine is said to be built on the site of a warlord's harem prison.

A massive wintry wall of snow up to 66 feet tall flanks a highway through Japan's mountains.

The Buddhist temples of Yamadera, built into a mountain side, feature a viewing deck with sweeping views.

A calico cat named Tama was the wildly popular Super Station Master at this train stop in southeast Japan.

A museum dedicated to the history of Tokyo's often-overlooked working-class district.

Children's literature inside, forest all around.

Largest graveyard in all of Japan surrounds a famous mausoleum.