Tokyo’s only Ainu restaurant serves Indigenous food from northern Japan.

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

A Catholicism-themed restaurant where sacrilege is on the menu.

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

Transport yourself to the 1980s era of video games at this themed restaurant and bar.

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

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

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

A massive cave complex boasts some of the clearest water (and most charming bats) in the world.

The legendary birthplace of the Japanese maneki-neko is dotted with hundreds of lucky beckoning cats.

Japanese island famous for poison gas and fluffy bunnies.

Not quite the menace it once was, this monster still has some chops.

A 70-foot-deep ice cave formed by lava from Mt. Fuji on the edge of Japan's "Suicide Forest." 

Every color in the rainbow awaits.

Hanging over one of Japan's "hidden valleys," these vine bridges must be remade every three years.

The original "capsule building" is a masterpiece of Metabolist architecture.

This 700-year-old street food market features baby octopus and soy donuts.

Tokyo’s only Vaudeville-cuckoo clock–steampunk-Victorian curio cabinet time piece.

A giant robo-cockroach building devours Tokyo.

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

An infamous house made famous by director Takashi Shimizu.

The largest of the Fuji Five Lakes is home to an impressive swan population—some real, some with paddles, and one with an observation deck.

One of the world's largest tanks mimics the experience of watching rare whale sharks, giant rays, and deep sea creatures from the ocean floor.

People from around the world visit the shrine of Japan’s legendarily loyal dog.