Burial mound for the ears and noses of thousands of mutilated Korean soldiers.

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

An unlikely hit, this museum is dedicated to the inventor of instant ramen and cup noodles.

Closed for decades, this strange symbol of Japan's Expo '70 has finally opened its psychedelic insides to the public.

Japan's largest and oldest annual procession of floats, begun in 869.

Modern Japanese museum is buried by snow annually.

The largest of the Fuji Five Lakes is home to an impressive swan population—some real, some with paddles, and one with an observation deck.

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

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

A bronze statue dating back as far as 1252, still has remnants of gold on its right cheek from ancient gilding.

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

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

An oddly touching memorial to a little-remembered nuclear tragedy.

After a profound show of devotion for his master, a dog becomes the symbol of loyalty for an entire nation.

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

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

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

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

Every color in the rainbow awaits.

The original "capsule building" is a masterpiece of Metabolist architecture.

An ordinary pond with fish from out of this world.

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

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

Cabaret where the show girls are all androids, and the patrons couldn't be more pleased.