A railway station takeout shop sells boxed meals in containers shaped like trains and snowmen that hold the country’s abundant regional delicacies.

Inside the columbarium, thousands of colorful, high-tech Buddhas guard the ashes of the dead.

This sprawling scenic burial ground is the final resting place of Japan's last shogun.

An unexpected curiosity cabinet hidden within a department store in the Japan Post tower.

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

We heard you like volcanoes so we put a volcano in your volcano so you can die for sure...

Meet the world's longest tapeworm in a collection that really gets under your skin.

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

An ordinary pond with fish from out of this world.

This Buddhist temple is home to the graves of the Japanese national legends, the 47 Ronin.

The sound of swaying stalks in this stunning grove has been named a governmentally recognized sound.