Row through this enchanted narrow chasm whose stones are said to resemble dragon scales.

This town near Nagasaki is flecked with fruit-flavored bus stops.

Japan's hottest hot spring has a memorable name.

This beautiful Japanese garden is a memorial to the samurai who literally wrote the book on business as martial art.

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

A massive, photogenic gate designed after a traditional hand drum used in the regional noh

This abandoned park is home to hundreds of stone statues ranging from humans to mystical beings.

A unique art exhibit home to letters addressed to those unable to receive them.

Plagued with warts? Leave a frog at this small shrine in the city of Tosa, and you may be cured.

At the "fishing boat shrine," an offering is said to help ward off fevers.

Though technically an illegal structure, this eclectic DIY apartment complex is beloved by its residents.

A giant rooftop ride with unbeatable views of Matsuyama city, the nearby mountain ranges, and the Inland Sea.

Japanese island famous for poison gas and fluffy bunnies.

A failed Russian themed village and amusement park in Niigata prefecture.

Japan's longest-running music festival takes place on an isolated butterfly-shaped island.

These unconventional "tub boats" let locals row around the island's turbulent coast.

Giant animal sculptures are created with the rice straw leftover from the fall harvest each year.

A quartet of temple guardian statues that allegedly cry at night for being forbidden from wrestling.

The self-mummified monks of Japan.

450 dead and frozen fish, proudly on display in Japan.

A derelict New Zealand-themed amusement park in Japan.

Visitors are encouraged to fish for water goblins at this haunted pool.

A thousand figurines of Oshira-sama, a horse-loving goddess of silk, await wish-making worshippers.

Two ogres stand guard at the Oga Visitor Center.