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

Fine dining in the bizarre world of Lewis Carroll.

Sidle into a side alley for a taste of sumo wrestlers' traditional hot-pot soup, in a tiny restaurant founded by a former competitor.

This traditional Japanese-style house doubles as one of James Turrell's colorful works of art.

Giant art made in Japanese rice fields.

For hundreds of years, participants in this Japanese festival have been making babies cry to ward off demons.

Cherry blossom season comes early in this Japanese town where pink flowers line the streets and riverbanks.

The world’s first hotel to be run by robots.

1,001 carved statues of the Buddhist God of Mercy, each with a unique face.

Japanese national treasure originally built in 593 CE.

This mesmerizingly colorful pond looks like a scene straight out of a fairytale.

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

The magical, mossy forest that inspired Princess Mononoke.

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

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

Once the most densely populated place in the world, this island is now a ghost town.

Hot springs monkey spa in the middle of Hell's Valley.

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

An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.