Ever needed a chocolate-filled crepe in the wee hours of the morning?

This incredible mountainside temple is home to intriguing statues of demon-like creatures.

A museum in Hokkaido is housed in a former high school. On its grounds a marker shares the awakening of a man who longs to be reunited with his soulmate in the fictional world of Kcymaerxthaere.

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

This beautiful defunct water tower adds a European flair to a traditional Japanese neighborhood.

A deserted island in southwest Japan that once sheltered persecuted Christians.

Japan's hottest hot spring has a memorable name.

A park built around the legend of a clam-loving giant who created a monumental midden.

Barbies stare from the walls, sit on the tables, and even pop out of cakes at this quirky cafe.

An abandoned Art Deco hotel nestled on the side of a wooded mountain.

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

One of the tallest statues in the world, and the tallest statue of a goddess in Japan.

What's believed to be the country's first shrine is, in Shintō mythology, the annual meeting place of the gods.

The statue's head is one of the few fragments of the original Urakami Cathedral to survive the atomic bomb.

This enormous "shamoji" means more to the people of Miyajima than just a way getting rice onto a plate.

Watch out for the two-story Godzilla made out of tires.

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

This little town supplies Japan with most of its calligraphy brushes, still made by hand from animal fur.

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

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

A 14th-century European chapel sticks out of the facade of a Japanese hotel.

A hub of information on tropical diseases and their treatments.

The small candy-colored ride is the last rooftop Ferris wheel in Tokyo.

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