Visit a speakeasy-like indie cinema specializing in 16mm and 35mm films.

Near the mouth of the Yodo River, this museum offers visitors six floors of hands-on learning about Osaka's raw sewage.

This bathhouse includes an option to soak in radioactive water.

This brothel-turned-restaurant features plenty of surprises and elaborate, extravagant architecture.

One of the first hotel rooms in a pod.

With over 12,000 different species of plants, this botanical garden is Japan's oldest and most diverse.

The first location of the eventual video game giant.

The 10,000 Torii shrine.

A statue of the forgotten American who helped transform Hokkaido and Japan.

This exacting restaurant will charge a fine for every grain of rice you've left behind.

An open-air museum exhibiting a total of 52 century-old buildings, recreating Hokkaido’s “pioneer village.”

This futuristic public park includes large sculptures and an artificial geyser.

A culturally significant rural temple in the beautiful mountains of Itoshima.

This shrine is home to an unusual trifold torii and a replica Trafalgar Square lion.

“Historical” markers commemorating the sites of fictional events depicted in a popular jidaigeki novel series.

The birthplace of the Japanese idiom "wet clothes" meaning “false accusation."

The former site of Fukuoka’s legendary ramen joint works hard to guide customers to the “original” original.

This is no ordinary coffee chain outlet—it's an architectural masterpiece.

Japan’s only surviving winding tower.

Japan’s oldest clock tower has been called one of the country’s most disappointing attractions.

The only thing sweeter than the potatoes is the canine proprietor of this roadside stall.

A serene mountaintop temple complex featuring one big, bronze Buddha.

It is rumored that if you spot this little golden frog hiding in plain sight, good luck will come your way.

In the oldest zen temple stands a descendant of the very tree that introduced tea to Japanese culture.