This mountain's identity is stuck somewhere between a nightmare and a scenic tourist attraction.

A tiny collection of traditional Japanese woodblock prints, open only when the owner feels like it.

A giant robo-cockroach building devours Tokyo.

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

Founded over a thousand years ago, this shrine is said to be built on the site of a warlord's harem prison.

Sulphuric gases inhabit a beautiful Japanese island.

The ruin of a Japanese love hotel almost completely overgrown with brambles.

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

This town near Nagasaki is flecked with fruit-flavored bus stops.

Japan's largest area of "pink moss" turns the hillside bright pink every spring.

Crawl through the hole in the middle of this stone to break off a bad relationship or initiate a good one.

A shrine contains nearly 200 statues of the Buddhist deity Jizo, dressed in bibs by parents who have lost a child.

Thirty architectural gems from the 19th- and early 20th-century Tokyo were restored and relocated to this space.

The ruins of Japan’s premier water brothel.

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

As the aging humans of this Japanese village die off one local artisan is replacing them with eerie homonculi.

Children's literature inside, forest all around.

Giant sand sculptures of famous people and places are on display near the Tottori sand dunes.

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

A calico cat named Tama was the wildly popular Super Station Master at this train stop in southeast Japan.

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

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

A disconnected rotary phone for "calling" lost loved ones offered a unique way of dealing with grief in disaster-stricken Japan.

The Buddhist temples of Yamadera, built into a mountain side, feature a viewing deck with sweeping views.