This active volcano's siren song to suicide jumpers forced authorities to build a fence.

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

Twelve hundred stone carvings guard this off-the-beaten-path Buddhist temple.

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

Japan's largest and oldest annual procession of floats, begun in 869.

When this massive wooden temple ran out of rope, they made one out of devotees' hair.

This Kyoto Starbucks takes coffee drinkers back in time.

The land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.