This pair of small sea rocks has been "wed" using rope and ancient Shinto tradition.

This ancient temple is set up to take you on a pilgrimage of self.

A plaque marks the site directly below the mid-air detonation of the atomic bomb over Hiroshima.

A beautiful bamboo trail tucked in this famous Japanese Shrine.

A 70-foot-deep ice cave formed by lava from Mt. Fuji on the edge of Japan's "Suicide Forest." 

Japanese national treasure originally built in 593 CE.

A restaurant modeled after feudal Japan, where the waitstaff are trained as ninjas.

Once a black market electronics marketplace, now an otaku shopper's paradise.

A 20-meter (65-foot) robot towers over Tokyo Bay.

After a profound show of devotion for his master, a dog becomes the symbol of loyalty for an entire nation.

This faux-seedy Japanese arcade is made up to look like a maze of alleys straight out of a cyberpunk dystopia.

Cabaret where the show girls are all androids, and the patrons couldn't be more pleased.

An astounding annual light display honors the victims of one of Japan's most devastating earthquakes.

A giant robo-cockroach building devours Tokyo.

Burial mound for the ears and noses of thousands of mutilated Korean soldiers.

The divine septet of Japanese fortune gods are rendered in 1,000 year old wood at this peaceful site.

A 59-ft. robot statue looks over the citizens of earthquake-ravaged Kobe.

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.

Each year this Japanese temple overflows with scowling, bearded good luck talismans.

Children's literature inside, forest all around.

A Japanese shrine to dolls.

The Hanshin Expressway goes right through its 5th, 6th, and 7th floors.

This sawtooth mountain range still bears the strangely lovely marks of its history as a medieval quarry.