This shrine dedicated to a legendary swordsman has become a pilgrimage site for the ill and infirmed.

More than 300 years old, Kyoto's historic "teahouse" still operates as an invitation-only geisha club.

Home to the world's oldest wooden building.

"Singing sands" and the world's largest hourglass reside near Japan's Kotogahama beach.

Nope, not the one in France. The only officially-recognized reproduction of Monet’s garden in Giverny is located in a remote corner of Japan.

Have a soak at this retro bathhouse, where you will find Japan's first electric bath, tiling from Spain, and wood carvings representing the Japanese invasion of Manchuria.

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

This temple is steeped in local folklore involving a teakettle and a raccoon dog.

The world's longest tunnel with an undersea section.

A hub of information on tropical diseases and their treatments.

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

One of the world's largest ancient burial mounds.

This incredible mountainside temple is home to intriguing statues of demon-like creatures.

This exacting restaurant will charge a fine for every grain of rice you've left behind.

Take a few seconds to look at this abandoned, art-filled station as you pass by on the subway to Ueno.

Japan's first automaton went missing, only to be revived by the Osaka Science Museum.

A monk-run winery inside a Buddhist temple celebrates Japan's crown grape varietal.

What's believed to be the country's first shrine is, in Shintō mythology, the annual meeting place of the gods.

450 dead and frozen fish, proudly on display in Japan.

"Bug Bug" Land, a natural park for beetle watching, still hasn't fully recovered from Fukushima's nuclear disaster.

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

Modern Japanese museum is buried by snow annually.

This 400-year-old sweet shop serves a delicacy some have described as "edible incense."

Mythical beasts symbolizing the city of Tokyo guard a historic bridge.