The small candy-colored ride is the last rooftop Ferris wheel in Tokyo.

These Japanese ruins have been brought back to life with elaborately recreated buildings.

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

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

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

An anthropological theme park that depicts the cultures of around 20 different countries.

Devoted Buddhists can earn enlightenment in the next life by crawling through this symbolic nostril.

With over 12,000 different species of plants, this botanical garden is Japan's oldest and most diverse.

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

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

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

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

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

White beach sands made of the remains of tiny, star shaped creatures.

Shells collected from over a hundred different countries line the walls, floors and ceilings of this fantasy museum.

Historical Japanese-Dutch relations are honored with haunted rides and flower fields in this replica town.

The tallest bronze seated statue of the Buddha in Japan.

A rare festival blending religion, blacksmiths, vagina dentata, sex workers, and the straight-up facts of life.

Go through the looking glass in Tokyo's Wonderland-themed shop.

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

One of the first hotel rooms in a pod.

The world's largest drain sits below the city of Kasukabe, Japan.