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

An infamous house made famous by director Takashi Shimizu.

Giant art made in Japanese rice fields.

A tiny collection of traditional Japanese woodblock prints, open only when the owner feels like it.

This mountain's identity is stuck somewhere between a nightmare and a scenic tourist attraction.

This pond is so stunning it looks like you've stepped into one of Monet's masterpieces.

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

White beach sands made of the remains of tiny, star shaped creatures.

A remarkable lava formation encloses a line of Buddhist statues that can't be accurately counted, according to local mythology.

A steaming, boiling hellscape sources Hokkaido's thermal baths.

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

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

Peace Park and the Atomic Bomb Dome.

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

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.

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

Enormous underground chamber built to detect 'ghost particles' of the universe.

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

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

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

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

A 20-meter (65-foot) robot towers over Tokyo Bay.

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