Places Added by Fred Cherrygarden

This ancient market is often referred to as the oldest shopping mall in the world.

This giant fashion model is one of the most beloved symbols of Nagoya.

Officially the lowest mountain in Japan.

This ornate Weser Renaissance house was also the home of an infamous witch hunter.

Inside this museum is an ongoing excavation of an ancient shipwreck.

Designed as a labyrinth, this subterranean prison was crafted without bars or doors.

Inside this church is an obscure piece of art carved by the famous Alice Liddell.

The famous Alice Liddell designed this memorial after losing her sons in World War I.

This grisly effigy displays an early Christian martyr who was skinned alive and beheaded.

A shrine dedicated to the sacred white snakes of Iwakuni, whose albinism has been passed down for generations.

You can still find treasures on the pebbly beaches of one of the world's oldest jade-producing areas.

A forgotten "city of water" underneath the famous Trevi district.

The site where the poet Matsuo Bashō read one of the first haiku that comprise his famous travelogue.

The only Buddhist temple in Japan dedicated to breasts.

An eerie reminder to the horrors of World War II.

According to one legend, this bridge was crafted after monkeys formed a body-bridge across the gorge.

One in a pair of subterranean caves created by an ancient eruption of Mount Fuji.

This infamous execution site inspired the beginning of Japan's modernization in the late 18th-century.

One of the few surviving World War II-era air-raid shelters in Tokyo.

Although it has never been a secret ninja base, this shrine still has plenty of tricks up its sleeve.

The largest privately owned statue of Buddha in Japan, built by a total amateur, with an unconventional look.

Is this cat asleep or just pretending?

A kitsch shrine dedicated to the ogre-slaying folktale hero born from a peach.

A rare example of an ancient Japanese hill castle believed to be the fortress of a legendary demon.