Tell this pair of "love-inviting" cats in Ginza your romantic hopes.

This mysterious medieval grotto holds a grid of sacred wells of unknown purpose.

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

This water goblin statue represents a 19th-century urban legend about a haunted canal that became a Japanese idiom.

A bibliophile's heaven that contains hundreds of bookstores, offering over a third of secondhand books for sale in Tokyo.

Home to the world's oldest wooden building.

This giant seated Bhudda of Healing dates to the 1780s.

A collection of more than 1,000 teddies from nearly any profession.

This ancient burial site was once thought to be the home of a race distinctive to Ainu folklore.

Watch out for the two-story Godzilla made out of tires.

A whimsical museum dedicated to the mischievous kappa, a mythical cucumber-loving water sprite.

A statue of a mischievous raccoon towers over this city park.

A 17th-century Shinto shrine that is home to statues of Mickey Mouse and Pikachu.

Hidden by the roadside in the Iya Valley, this gem brings together folk monsters and the region's unique geography.

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

Approximately 300 million years ago, a massive coral reef existed in what is now the largest limestone cave in Japan.

A train ride to the middle of nowhere gives its passengers some of the most iconic views of Japan's seasons.

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

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

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

A Japanese train station built around a 700-year-old camphor tree.

A Japanese shrine to dolls.

Weighing nearly 7 tons, this massive sculpture was carved out of 500-year-old wood and decorated with thousands of jewels.

A strange tribute to all the fallen souls of war.