Children's literature inside, forest all around.

The divine septet of Japanese fortune gods are rendered in 1,000 year old wood at this peaceful site.

Each year this Japanese temple overflows with scowling, bearded good luck talismans.

The cutest shrine in Kyoto is dedicated to bunnies.

Discover the past, present, and future of packaging in this unique Japanese museum.

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

Giant animal sculptures are created with the rice straw leftover from the fall harvest each year.

Giant sand sculptures of famous people and places are on display near the Tottori sand dunes.

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

The largest volcanic caldera in Japan holds an entire city in its maw.

White beach sands made of the remains of tiny, star shaped creatures.

Oddly touching memorial to a little-remembered nuclear tragedy.

These Japanese gardens are blankets of light for dark winter nights.

One of the world's largest tanks mimics the experience of watching rare whale sharks, giant rays, and deep sea creatures from the ocean floor.

An unexpected curiosity cabinet hidden within a department store in the Japan Post tower.

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

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

The tallest bronze seated statue of the Buddha in Japan.

A museum dedicated to the history of Tokyo's often-overlooked working-class district.

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

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

Inside the columbarium, thousands of colorful, high-tech Buddhas guard the ashes of the dead.

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

Enormous underground chamber built to detect 'ghost particles' of the universe.