This little known mountain has claimed four times as many lives as Everest.

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

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

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

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

When this massive wooden temple ran out of rope, they made one out of devotees' hair.

An astounding annual light display honors the victims of one of Japan's most devastating earthquakes.

Unusual hexagonal rocks formed by cooling lava named for their resemblance to traditional Japanese tatami mats.

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

One of the largest producers of MSG in the world welcomes visitors to its Kawasaki factory with an albino panda named Aji-Kun.

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

This bridge is so steep it looks like a rollercoaster.

The giant figure on the back of this turtle-shaped temple actually hides a memorial pendulum.

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

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

Shrine dedicated to boars that is believed to cure foot and leg injuries.

A tiny cafe that recreates the Japanese elementary school lunch experience.

A derelict New Zealand-themed amusement park in Japan.

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

Birthplace of the Tendai sect and home to the marathon monks.

The world's shortest escalator doesn't seem to have any reason to exist other than to hold a world record.

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

A disconnected rotary phone for "calling" lost loved ones offered a unique way of dealing with grief in disaster-stricken Japan.

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