A statue of a mischievous raccoon towers over this city park.

Watch out for the two-story Godzilla made out of tires.

An eerie maze of industrial factories looks like something out of a dystopian sci-fi.

Museum dedicated to the largest battleship ever built.

This historic hydroelectric power plant in Japan has been preserved and is open to the public.

"Excuse me sir, your submarine is blocking my building."

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

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

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

Elaborate series of tunnels where traces of mass suicide are still visible.

Modern Japanese museum is buried by snow annually.

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

Oddly touching memorial to a little-remembered nuclear tragedy.

A calico cat named Tama was the wildly popular Super Station Master at this train stop in southeast Japan.

Children's literature inside, forest all around.

A massive cave complex boasts some of the clearest water (and most charming bats) in the world.

Peace Park and the Atomic Bomb Dome.

This 700-year-old street food market features baby octopus and soy donuts.

Okinawan dining in a twenty foot tall, man-made tree house overlooking Naha Harbor.

This ancient temple is set up to take you on a pilgrimage of self.

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

Every color in the rainbow awaits.

Underground farm located in a former bank vault deep within the bowels of Tokyo's business district.

The magical, mossy forest that inspired Princess Mononoke.