This brothel-turned-restaurant features plenty of surprises and elaborate, extravagant architecture.

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

A unique Shinto shrine filled with bunnies and wordplay.

One in a pair of subterranean caves created by an ancient eruption of Mount Fuji.

This amusement park brings a little slice of England to the heart of Kyushu.

Come for the fish sundae, stay for the collection of Studio Ghibli cat buses.

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.

Japan's hottest hot spring has a memorable name.

If you forgot something to read during your trip to Tokyo, this hostel has you covered.

Hidden by the roadside in the Iya Valley, this gem brings together folk monsters and the region's unique geography.

Kawaii meets poisonous at this unique art gallery.

A quaint amusement park now sits, rusting and forgotten among the foliage.

A statue erected on an infamous cliff where young boys would hold dangerous "pee offs" to prove their mettle.

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

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

Discover the past, present, and future of packaging in this unique Japanese museum.

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

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

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.

Oddly touching memorial to a little-remembered nuclear tragedy.

Closed for decades, this strange symbol of Japan's Expo '70 has finally opened its psychedelic insides to the public.

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

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

A Japanese cat island also populated by the descendants of a band of banished samurai.