An infamous house made famous by director Takashi Shimizu.

Japan's largest area of "pink moss" turns the hillside bright pink every spring.

A Japanese shrine to dolls.

Twelve hundred stone carvings guard this off-the-beaten-path Buddhist temple.

Cherry blossom season comes early in this Japanese town where pink flowers line the streets and riverbanks.

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

Founded over a thousand years ago, this shrine is said to be built on the site of a warlord's harem prison.

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

As the aging humans of this Japanese village die off one local artisan is replacing them with eerie homonculi.

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

This mesmerizingly colorful pond looks like a scene straight out of a fairytale.

This isolated Japanese mountain village untouched by time showcases unique and stunning traditional architecture.

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

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

Children's literature inside, forest all around.

The Buddhist temples of Yamadera, built into a mountain side, feature a viewing deck with sweeping views.

With over 12,000 different species of plants, this botanical garden is Japan's oldest and most diverse.

A remarkable lava formation encloses a line of Buddhist statues that can't be accurately counted, according to local mythology.

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

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

Be a ninja - or just act like one.

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

The tallest bronze seated statue of the Buddha in Japan.

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