The demolished ruins of a poorly located Japanese Love Hotel.

Unlikely place for krautrock legends to hang out.

Okinawan dining in a twenty foot tall, man-made tree house overlooking Naha Harbor.

This volcanic island in the Pacific just keeps growing and growing.

Legend says the goddess this shrine honors curses any couples that pass by.

After being lost for decades, this striking mural depicting the atomic bomb covers the wall of a busy Tokyo metro station.

The cemetery houses the remains of Jun’ichirō Tanizaki, one of Japan's most famous novelists.

Ruins and statues dot the landscape of this tiny island rich with royal history.

A collection of the specialized tools used to construct Japan’s beautiful architecture.

Stone slabs along the coast warn of Japan's tsunami-ravaged past, often marking the highest point of a wave's reach.

These seven moai figures are the world's only sanctioned replicas of the Easter Island originals.

One of the bloodiest and most important battles in Japanese history is recreated with kitschy concrete statues.

A collection of more than 1,000 teddies from nearly any profession.

Constructed thousands of years ago, these stone circles offer incredible insight into the lives of the people who built them.

A statue of a mischievous raccoon towers over this city park.

When this massive wooden temple ran out of rope, they made one out of devotees' hair.

This temple is steeped in local folklore involving a teakettle and a raccoon dog.

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

A network of sandy streets lined with verdant fukugi trees weaves throughout this tiny seaside town.

The traditional houses along the coast of this charming Japanese fishing village allow people to sleep above the sea.

These Japanese ruins have been brought back to life with elaborately recreated buildings.

Japan's first automaton went missing, only to be revived by the Osaka Science Museum.

The iconic castle that withstood a magnitude 6.2 earthquake has become a symbol of resilience.

This little known mountain has claimed four times as many lives as Everest.