A smiling guardian couple stands beside a department store, carrying folk belief into modern Shibuya

This replica of the Statue of Liberty is a quarter of the size of the real thing. It sits on the same latitude as the original, but on the other side of the world.

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

This little replica of Lady Liberty provides a bit of NYC in a Japanese city.

Legend holds eating just one of these black eggs can add seven years to one's life.

A 20-meter (65-foot) robot towers over Tokyo Bay.

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

Not quite the menace it once was, this monster still has some chops.

The 10,000 Torii shrine.

The legendary birthplace of the Japanese maneki-neko is dotted with hundreds of lucky beckoning cats.

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

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