This active volcano's siren song to suicide jumpers forced authorities to build a fence.

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

Largest graveyard in all of Japan surrounds a famous mausoleum.

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

An astounding annual light display honors the victims of one of Japan's most devastating earthquakes.

A real-life replica of a home from Hayao Miyazaki's beloved movie "My Neighbor Totoro."

Unusual hexagonal rocks formed by cooling lava named for their resemblance to traditional Japanese tatami mats.

Historical Japanese-Dutch relations are honored with haunted rides and flower fields in this replica town.

Shells collected from over a hundred different countries line the walls, floors and ceilings of this fantasy museum.

This sawtooth mountain range still bears the strangely lovely marks of its history as a medieval quarry.

We heard you like volcanoes so we put a volcano in your volcano so you can die for sure...

A tiny cafe that recreates the Japanese elementary school lunch experience.

Drinkslinger is an unlikely vocation for a Buddhist monk, but at this Tokyo bar the enlightenment is served in a martini glass.

One of the first hotel rooms in a pod.

Starship-temple contains 400 tons of drinking water and offers free Japanese lessons.

Go through the looking glass in Tokyo's Wonderland-themed shop.

A bronze statue dating back as far as 1252, still has remnants of gold on its right cheek from ancient gilding.

Once a black market electronics marketplace, now an otaku shopper's paradise.

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.

Reportedly 1,400 years old, this may be the first of the Fiji Mermaids.

Steaming blood-red hot spring from hell.

One of Japan's most famous sights, the bridge was originally built in 1673.

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