The floats housed in this hall are more than 100 years old, and are brought out for an annual celebration.

A monk-run winery inside a Buddhist temple celebrates Japan's crown grape varietal.

"The Dance of Fools" is Japan's largest dance festival.

These wondrously illuminated caverns extend under the mountains of the Fukushima Prefecture.

The world's longest tunnel with an undersea section.

What's believed to be the country's first shrine is, in Shintō mythology, the annual meeting place of the gods.

One of the world's largest ancient burial mounds.

Ruins and statues dot the landscape of this tiny island rich with royal history.

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

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

This exacting restaurant will charge a fine for every grain of rice you've left behind.

Japan's largest collection of Western-style mansions in the port city of Kobe includes a recreation of Sherlock Holmes' 221B Baker Street quarters.

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

Approximately 300 million years ago, a massive coral reef existed in what is now the largest limestone cave in Japan.

A strange tribute to all the fallen souls of war.

A 17th-century Shinto shrine that is home to statues of Mickey Mouse and Pikachu.

Sulphuric gases inhabit a beautiful Japanese island.

This historic hydroelectric power plant in Japan has been preserved and is open to the public.

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

Dedicated to the armor and weapons used by the legendary Japanese warriors.

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

"Bug Bug" Land, a natural park for beetle watching, still hasn't fully recovered from Fukushima's nuclear disaster.

A small island with no monkeys but plenty of military ruins.

A remote and slightly overgrown park filled with replicas of world landmarks.