Open-air museum with an elaborate sculpture garden, stretching for over 70,000 square-meters.

This spa theme park lets its guests take a dip in pools of coffee, wine, or ramen broth.

Museum showcases Japanese sexuality and some amazing ocean views.

An ingenious solution to a tricky engineering problem, this spiraling bridge takes drivers for a dizzying spin.

Giant animal sculptures are created with the rice straw leftover from the fall harvest each year.

Running through lush forests and across the Tadami River, this train line offers breathtaking views of rural Japan.

The oldest hotel in the world has been operated by the same family for over 1,300 years, even catering to samurai.

This traditional Japanese-style house doubles as one of James Turrell's colorful works of art.

This isolated Japanese mountain village untouched by time showcases unique and stunning traditional architecture.

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

The only Buddhist temple in Japan dedicated to breasts.

A real-life replica of a home from Hayao Miyazaki's beloved movie "My Neighbor Totoro."

These Japanese gardens are blankets of light for dark winter nights.

Experience park where visitors are told to expect the unexpected.

The cutest shrine in Kyoto is dedicated to bunnies.

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

Visitors to this museum will discover that kaleidoscopes are much more than toys.

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

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

A beautiful bamboo trail tucked in this famous Japanese Shrine.

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

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

Be a ninja - or just act like one.

A lesser-known sister to Paris's world-famous museum, located within a Buddhist sculpture paradise.