A Japanese train station built around a 700-year-old camphor tree.

This ancient shrine has been rebuilt every 20 years since the eighth century.

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

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

Shrine dedicated to boars that is believed to cure foot and leg injuries.

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

The Yonaguni Monument, a natural formation or the Japanese Atlantis?

The largest collection of model trains in the world is actually run using full-size locomotive technology.

This bridge is so steep it looks like a rollercoaster.

Coast along one of Japan’s mountain railways for coveted views of magnificent hydrangeas.

This giant bronze Buddha, the third largest in Japan, is the last in an ill-fated series of statues.

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

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

The largest of the Fuji Five Lakes is home to an impressive swan population—some real, some with paddles, and one with an observation deck.

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

This town near Nagasaki is flecked with fruit-flavored bus stops.

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

Japan's largest area of "pink moss" turns the hillside bright pink every spring.

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

Cherry blossom season comes early in this Japanese town where pink flowers line the streets and riverbanks.

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

This pond is so stunning it looks like you've stepped into one of Monet's masterpieces.

A remarkable lava formation encloses a line of Buddhist statues that can't be accurately counted, according to local mythology.

A steaming, boiling hellscape sources Hokkaido's thermal baths.