Japanese island famous for poison gas and fluffy bunnies.

The 10,000 Torii shrine.

Bioluminescent firefly squid light up this Japanese fishing port.

Hot springs monkey spa in the middle of Hell's Valley.

This faux-seedy Japanese arcade is made up to look like a maze of alleys straight out of a cyberpunk dystopia.

A beautiful, dense forest in the shadow of Mount Fuji, with a tragic reputation.

A magical place that lets you play in and explore the world of Studio Ghibli.

An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.

On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.

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

The abandoned Japanese amusement park once loomed as a dystopian Disneyland.

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

"Excuse me sir, your submarine is blocking my building."

The bartenders at this crime-fighting theme cafe are actual private detectives by day.

A sobering scientific reminder of the human damage caused by the advent of the nuclear age.

Make your own fake treats at this factory and workshop in the epicenter of Japan's food replica industry.

Japan's largest collection of Western-style mansions in the port city of Kobe includes a recreation of Sherlock Holmes' 221B Baker Street quarters.

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

This historic hydroelectric power plant in Japan has been preserved and is open to the public.

Japan's largest and oldest annual procession of floats, begun in 869.

With over 12,000 different species of plants, this botanical garden is Japan's oldest and most diverse.

A derelict New Zealand-themed amusement park in Japan.

An abandoned giant glass dome sits in the bay in “the Venice of the East.”

Crawl through the hole in the middle of this stone to break off a bad relationship or initiate a good one.