"The Dance of Fools" is Japan's largest dance festival.

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

This giant seated Bhudda of Healing dates to the 1780s.

Birthplace of the Tendai sect and home to the marathon monks.

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

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

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

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

This beautiful Japanese garden is a memorial to the samurai who literally wrote the book on business as martial art.

Cherry blossom season comes early in this Japanese town where pink flowers line the streets and riverbanks.

One of the largest producers of MSG in the world welcomes visitors to its Kawasaki factory with an albino panda named Aji-Kun.

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

An infamous house made famous by director Takashi Shimizu.

Giant animal sculptures are created with the rice straw leftover from the fall harvest each year.

The Yonaguni Monument, a natural formation or the Japanese Atlantis?

A Japanese cat island also populated by the descendants of a band of banished samurai.

A small island with no monkeys but plenty of military ruins.

One of the world's largest ancient burial mounds.

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

For hundreds of years, participants in this Japanese festival have been making babies cry to ward off demons.

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

A statue erected on an infamous cliff where young boys would hold dangerous "pee offs" to prove their mettle.

Devoted Buddhists can earn enlightenment in the next life by crawling through this symbolic nostril.

Modern Japanese museum is buried by snow annually.