For hundreds of years, participants in this Japanese festival have been making babies cry to ward off demons.

Tokyo’s only Ainu restaurant serves Indigenous food from northern Japan.

The freshest fish here are the ones you catch yourself.

A taste of the macabre Tokyo's ritzy shopping district.

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

1,001 carved statues of the Buddhist God of Mercy, each with a unique face.

Japan's corrupt-mental-institution themed restaurant offers diners a chance to eat inside of filthy cells.

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."

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

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

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

Museum showcases Japanese sexuality and some amazing ocean views.

Reportedly 1,400 years old, this may be the first of the Fiji Mermaids.

The self-mummified monks of Japan.

Shrine to Japanese water-goblins, complete with their preserved body parts.

Japanese island famous for poison gas and fluffy bunnies.

This spa theme park lets its guests take a dip in pools of coffee, wine, or ramen broth.

The magical, mossy forest that inspired Princess Mononoke.

Hanging over one of Japan's "hidden valleys," these vine bridges must be remade every three years.

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

An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.

A Catholicism-themed restaurant where sacrilege is on the menu.

A Japanese concept restaurant that feels like a party thrown by the monsters in your closet.