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This temple is steeped in local folklore involving a teakettle and a raccoon dog.

Home to a legend of the supernatural raccoon dog, a rare wooden structure of Edo, and witnesses of the Tokyo bombings.

This giant bronze Buddha, the third largest in Japan, is the last in an ill-fated series of statues.

This whimsical garbage disposal facility receives around 12,000 accidental tourists each year.

A statue erected on an infamous cliff where young boys would hold dangerous "pee offs" to prove their mettle.

Nope, not the one in France. The only officially-recognized reproduction of Monet’s garden in Giverny is located in a remote corner of Japan.

Japan's first automaton went missing, only to be revived by the Osaka Science Museum.

Sample specialties from Xinjiang at this Shinjuku neighborhood gem.

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

This water goblin statue represents a 19th-century urban legend about a haunted canal that became a Japanese idiom.

This mountain's identity is stuck somewhere between a nightmare and a scenic tourist attraction.

This kitsch-forward diner is dedicated to an almost-forgotten “one-cent” prototype of okonomiyaki.

The giant figure on the back of this turtle-shaped temple actually hides a memorial pendulum.

Walls of VHS tapes adorn this Golden Gai B horror movie themed bar.

A hole-in-the-wall antiquities museum in one of Tokyo's most popular megamalls.

A semi-abandoned replica of Prince Edward Island's Avonlea—in Japan.

Luminaries from Albert Einstein to John Lennon once had a cup of coffee at Tokyo's oldest café.

One of the tallest statues in the world, and the tallest statue of a goddess in Japan.

Tell this pair of "love-inviting" cats in Ginza your romantic hopes.

A small Japanese village claims to be the final resting place of the son of God (and God's other son's ear).

Devoted Buddhists can earn enlightenment in the next life by crawling through this symbolic nostril.

This traditional Japanese-style house doubles as one of James Turrell's colorful works of art.

These wondrously illuminated caverns extend under the mountains of the Fukushima Prefecture.

Hidden by the roadside in the Iya Valley, this gem brings together folk monsters and the region's unique geography.