A real-life replica of a home from Hayao Miyazaki's beloved movie "My Neighbor Totoro."

Closed for decades, this strange symbol of Japan's Expo '70 has finally opened its psychedelic insides to the public.

Largest graveyard in all of Japan surrounds a famous mausoleum.

This ruined Japanese stripclub sits half burnt to the ground.

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

The 43-mile route crosses through six islands with gorgeous views of the Seto Inland Sea.

A steaming, boiling hellscape sources Hokkaido's thermal baths.

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

Shells collected from over a hundred different countries line the walls, floors and ceilings of this fantasy museum.

This sawtooth mountain range still bears the strangely lovely marks of its history as a medieval quarry.

A rare festival blending religion, blacksmiths, vagina dentata, sex workers, and the straight-up facts of life.

We heard you like volcanoes so we put a volcano in your volcano so you can die for sure...

Serving you alcohol with a side of insanity. Also, costumes!

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

Abandoned Japanese ghost town gives a glimpse into what our own metropolises may leave behind.

A Japanese corporation has turned this small island town into living modern art gallery.

This pair of small sea rocks has been "wed" using rope and ancient Shinto tradition.

A restaurant modeled after feudal Japan, where the waitstaff are trained as ninjas.

One of the first hotel rooms in a pod.

A Buddhist temple to honor insects that died for science.

Meet the world's longest tapeworm in a collection that really gets under your skin.

Museum showcases Japanese sexuality and some amazing ocean views.

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

The world's largest drain sits below the city of Kasukabe, Japan.