Huts like this were once a hub for the female divers who collected pearls and seafood off Japan's coasts.

Disaster prevention apartment blocks in Sumida Ward are designed to save as many as possible in the face of the inevitable.

A King Kong-like gorilla hangs from the top of this commercial building in Tokyo.

This sprawling scenic burial ground is the final resting place of Japan's last shogun.

After being lost for decades, this striking mural depicting the atomic bomb covers the wall of a busy Tokyo metro station.

These Japanese ruins have been brought back to life with elaborately recreated buildings.

Turn around and stick your head between your legs for the best view of this tree-covered sandbar.

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

The iconic castle that withstood a magnitude 6.2 earthquake has become a symbol of resilience.

The traditional houses along the coast of this charming Japanese fishing village allow people to sleep above the sea.

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

This beautiful Japanese garden is a memorial to the samurai who literally wrote the book on business as martial art.

More tin toys than you can shake a clapping monkey at.

A small island with no monkeys but plenty of military ruins.

The Yonaguni Monument, a natural formation or the Japanese Atlantis?

Roots and stumps that lay inundated for two millennia are on display in Japan's city of three mysteries.

A 59-ft. robot statue looks over the citizens of earthquake-ravaged Kobe.

Giant animal sculptures are created with the rice straw leftover from the fall harvest each year.

The ruins of Japan’s premier water brothel.

Thirty architectural gems from the 19th- and early 20th-century Tokyo were restored and relocated to this space.

Children's literature inside, forest all around.

This little replica of Lady Liberty provides a bit of NYC in a Japanese city.

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

A Japanese cat island also populated by the descendants of a band of banished samurai.