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

Open-air museum with an elaborate sculpture garden, stretching for over 70,000 square-meters.

Legend holds eating just one of these black eggs can add seven years to one's life.

Coast along one of Japan’s mountain railways for coveted views of magnificent hydrangeas.

Colloquially known as “piss alley,” this narrow street filled with tiny bars and barbecue stands looks like it was pulled straight out of “Blade Runner.”

These unique toilets feature transparent glass covered in PDLC film.

Discover the past, present, and future of packaging in this unique Japanese museum.

Near the mouth of the Yodo River, this museum offers visitors six floors of hands-on learning about Osaka's raw sewage.

Perhaps the world's cheapest vending machines.

A strip of traditional hand towel serves as an admission ticket at this modern tenugui museum.

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

Inside the columbarium, thousands of colorful, high-tech Buddhas guard the ashes of the dead.

This bizarre residential building is the masterpiece of Von Jour Caux, the “Gaudí of Japan.”

This museum celebrates the history of Japanese advertising, from feudal business tricks to modern T.V. commercials.

This battleship of a building was designed by a famed "mad architect."

More tin toys than you can shake a clapping monkey at.

The world's shortest escalator doesn't seem to have any reason to exist other than to hold a world record.

Unchanged for decades, World War II-era bullet holes and nostalgic ghost signs still haunt this desolate train station.

Installed in 1965, this whimsical slide has spawned a brood of “octopus mountains” across Japan.

Kawaii meets poisonous at this unique art gallery.

Steampunk, humanoid sculptures crawl on all fours in a Tokyo plaza.

The Japanese mayo factory famous for its cute mascot.

Though the case is scorched and the buttons half-melted, this hardy handheld gaming device can still run a game of Tetris.

Would you spend the night in Japan's deepest train station?