These Japanese gardens are blankets of light for dark winter nights.

A museum dedicated to the least secret spy is actually an attempt to get Hollywood's attention.

Each year this Japanese temple overflows with scowling, bearded good luck talismans.

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

This pond is so stunning it looks like you've stepped into one of Monet's masterpieces.

These unconventional "tub boats" let locals row around the island's turbulent coast.

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

Be a ninja - or just act like one.

A rare festival blending religion, blacksmiths, vagina dentata, sex workers, and the straight-up facts of life.

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

Every autumn, this hillside is ablaze with red summer cypress.

A Japanese concept restaurant that feels like a party thrown by the monsters in your closet.

Tokyo’s only Vaudeville-cuckoo clock–steampunk-Victorian curio cabinet time piece.