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

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

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

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

A lakeside garden in the Southern Alps full of whimsical artwork and thousands of beautiful flowers.

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

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

Steaming blood-red hot spring from hell.

Japanese company creates clone dolls that reside in the "uncanny valley."

A bronze statue dating back as far as 1252, still has remnants of gold on its right cheek from ancient gilding.

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

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

A charmingly old-fashioned reminder of the historic building's former life.

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

A plaque marks the site directly below the mid-air detonation of the atomic bomb over Hiroshima.

An ordinary pond with fish from out of this world.

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

The self-mummified monks of Japan.

The freshest fish here are the ones you catch yourself.

Shrine to Japanese water-goblins, complete with their preserved body parts.

A beautiful bamboo trail tucked in this famous Japanese Shrine.

Every color in the rainbow awaits.

This historical theme park celebrates all things noodle.

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