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

A calico cat named Tama was the wildly popular Super Station Master at this train stop in southeast Japan.

Closed for decades, this strange symbol of Japan's Expo '70 has finally opened its psychedelic insides to the public.

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

A Japanese corporation has turned this small island town into living modern art gallery.

Nine Gardens in one—with tea service.

This neighborhood thoroughfare is haunted by dozens of homemade monsters.

Open-air museum with an elaborate sculpture garden, stretching for over 70,000 square-meters.

The magical, mossy forest that inspired Princess Mononoke.

If Hello Kitty were Mickey Mouse, this would be Disneyland.

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

This massive wooden building contains a giant Buddha, healing pillars, and tame deer wandering the grounds.

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

Cabaret where the show girls are all androids, and the patrons couldn't be more pleased.

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

An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.

The sound of swaying stalks in this stunning grove has been named a governmentally recognized sound.

This 700-year-old street food market features baby octopus and soy donuts.