This 400-year-old sweet shop serves a delicacy some have described as "edible incense."

Narrow passes cut out of mountains surround the medieval capital of Japan.

A thick blanket of beautiful pampas grass cloaks this unique Japanese landscape.

What's believed to be the country's first shrine is, in Shintō mythology, the annual meeting place of the gods.

450 dead and frozen fish, proudly on display in Japan.

This historic hydroelectric power plant in Japan has been preserved and is open to the public.

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

A Japanese train station built around a 700-year-old camphor tree.

Japan's largest collection of Western-style mansions in the port city of Kobe includes a recreation of Sherlock Holmes' 221B Baker Street quarters.

"Bug Bug" Land, a natural park for beetle watching, still hasn't fully recovered from Fukushima's nuclear disaster.

This brothel-turned-restaurant features plenty of surprises and elaborate, extravagant architecture.

This ancient shrine has been rebuilt every 20 years since the eighth century.

Modern Japanese museum is buried by snow annually.

Roots and stumps that lay inundated for two millennia are on display in Japan's city of three mysteries.

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

Stuck in a bygone era, the oldest subterranean shopping street in Japan hides beneath the popular Asakusa district of Tokyo.

These wondrously illuminated caverns extend under the mountains of the Fukushima Prefecture.

Hidden by the roadside in the Iya Valley, this gem brings together folk monsters and the region's unique geography.

When this clock strikes a certain time, puppets showcase a story of life in Edo Japan.

A dilapidated amusement park with a million-dollar view.

The third-tallest statue in the world depicts the "Buddha of Infinite Light," complete with observation deck in his chest.

One of the tallest statues in the world, and the tallest statue of a goddess in Japan.

The giant figure on the back of this turtle-shaped temple actually hides a memorial pendulum.

Approximately 300 million years ago, a massive coral reef existed in what is now the largest limestone cave in Japan.