Places Machinbiduletruc Wants to Go

This theme park is not in Tokyo, not especially German, and certainly not a village.

A real-life replica of a home from Hayao Miyazaki's beloved movie "My Neighbor Totoro."

A Japanese corporation has turned this small island town into living modern art gallery.

Japan's largest area of "pink moss" turns the hillside bright pink every spring.

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

Abandoned Japanese ghost town gives a glimpse into what our own metropolises may leave behind.

Unusual hexagonal rocks formed by cooling lava named for their resemblance to traditional Japanese tatami mats.

A disconnected rotary phone for "calling" lost loved ones offered a unique way of dealing with grief in disaster-stricken Japan.

This neighborhood thoroughfare is haunted by dozens of homemade monsters.

This 700-year-old street food market features baby octopus and soy donuts.

Hot springs monkey spa in the middle of Hell's Valley.

A train ride to the middle of nowhere gives its passengers some of the most iconic views of Japan's seasons.

This pond is so stunning it looks like you've stepped into one of Monet's masterpieces.

An ordinary pond with fish from out of this world.

Every color in the rainbow awaits.

Tokyo’s only Vaudeville-cuckoo clock–steampunk-Victorian curio cabinet time piece.

A remarkable lava formation encloses a line of Buddhist statues that can't be accurately counted, according to local mythology.

Hundreds of statues of Buddha’s disciples meditating, napping, sneezing, and picking their noses.

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.

The largest of its kind in Japan, this century-old wasabi farm is also known for its appearance in an Akira Kurosawa film.

A bronze sculpture on a bridge, of the shoes of 29 famous Malmöites.

A living descendant of the famous tree that helped Isaac Newton develop the theory of gravity.

Enormous ants wielding giant pine needles guard a Stockholm real estate company's office.

This poignant sculpture of a gnarled weapon is a symbol of non-violence.