Turn around and stick your head between your legs for the best view of this tree-covered sandbar.

It's bad manners to eat and drink on the subways of Tokyo, unless the train is this bar. 

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

A flight of this "ghost staircase" has 40 steps on the way up, but only 39 steps on the way down.

"Singing sands" and the world's largest hourglass reside near Japan's Kotogahama beach.

A moss-covered statue of a Japanese Buddhist deity stands at a quiet temple in downtown Osaka.

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

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

Ever needed a chocolate-filled crepe in the wee hours of the morning?

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.

A Japanese shrine to dolls.

This tiny museum hidden above a restaurant houses thousands of modern and traditional kites.

A thick blanket of beautiful pampas grass cloaks this unique Japanese landscape.

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

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

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

A mysterious set of tunnels carved in the hills of rural northern Kyushu.

This adorable birdlike police box is designed based on a play on words.

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

Rows of stone statues are dressed up to mourn children that are lost before birth.

A small Japanese village claims to be the final resting place of the son of God (and God's other son's ear).

Roots and stumps that lay inundated for two millennia are on display in Japan's city of three mysteries.

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