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Starship-temple contains 400 tons of drinking water and offers free Japanese lessons.

The world's largest drain sits below the city of Kasukabe, Japan.

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

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

Steaming blood-red hot spring from hell.

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

An ordinary pond with fish from out of this world.

The self-mummified monks of Japan.

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

A beautiful bamboo trail tucked in this famous Japanese shrine.

This Buddhist temple is home to the graves of the Japanese national legends, the 47 Ronin.

A 70-foot-deep ice cave formed by lava from Mt. Fuji on the edge of Japan's "Suicide Forest." 

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

This neighborhood thoroughfare is haunted by dozens of homemade monsters.

Open-air museum with an elaborate sculpture garden, stretching for over 70,000 square-meters.

Japanese island famous for poison gas and fluffy bunnies.

This historical theme park celebrates all things noodle.

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.

Tokyo’s only Vaudeville-cuckoo clock–steampunk-Victorian curio cabinet time piece.

Experience park where visitors are told to expect the unexpected.

Bioluminescent firefly squid light up this Japanese fishing port.

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

An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.