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

Be a ninja - or just act like one.

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

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

A Japanese cat island also populated by the descendants of a band of banished samurai.

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

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

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

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

The bartenders at this crime-fighting theme cafe are actual private detectives by day.

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

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

Serving you alcohol with a side of insanity. Also, costumes!

The world’s first hotel to be run by robots.

One of the first hotel rooms in a pod.

Museum showcases Japanese sexuality and some amazing ocean views.

Enormous underground chamber built to detect 'ghost particles' of the universe.

Drinkslinger is an unlikely vocation for a Buddhist monk, but at this Tokyo bar the enlightenment is served in a martini glass.

Steaming blood-red hot spring from hell.

This mesmerizingly colorful pond looks like a scene straight out of a fairytale.

Reportedly 1,400 years old, this may be the first of the Fiji Mermaids.

One of Japan's most famous sights, the bridge was originally built in 1673.

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

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