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

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

Tokyo’s only Vaudeville-cuckoo clock–steampunk-Victorian curio cabinet time piece.

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

Not quite the menace it once was, this monster still has some chops.

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

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

The 10,000 Torii shrine.

A shrine contains nearly 200 statues of the Buddhist deity Jizo, dressed in bibs by parents who have lost a child.

The quintessential Japanese rock garden has existed for more than 500 years.

This 14th-century temple is also known as the "Temple of the Golden Pavilion" for its gorgeous gilded reliquary hall.

Devoted Buddhists can earn enlightenment in the next life by crawling through this symbolic nostril.

Peace Park and the Atomic Bomb Dome.

A plaque marks the site directly below the mid-air detonation of the atomic bomb over Hiroshima.

Japanese national treasure originally built in 593 CE.

This town near Nagasaki is flecked with fruit-flavored bus stops.

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

Historical Japanese-Dutch relations are honored with haunted rides and flower fields in this replica town.

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

Japan's hottest hot spring has a memorable name.

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