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Starship-temple contains 400 tons of drinking water and offers free Japanese lessons.

The ruin of a Japanese love hotel almost completely overgrown with brambles.

Modern Japanese museum is buried by snow annually.

Elaborate series of tunnels where traces of mass suicide are still visible.

Experience park where visitors are told to expect the unexpected.

The only electricity pylon built over two lanes of traffic.

Sulphuric gases inhabit a beautiful Japanese island.

Giant art made in Japanese rice fields.

A strange tribute to all the fallen souls of war.

This active volcano's siren song to suicide jumpers forced authorities to build a fence.

The Yonaguni Monument, a natural formation or the Japanese Atlantis?

The divine septet of Japanese fortune gods are rendered in 1,000-year-old wood at this peaceful site.

A derelict New Zealand-themed amusement park in Japan.

Founded over a thousand years ago, this shrine is said to be built on the site of a warlord's harem prison.

The world's largest radiation field is probably our best bet for irradiated vegetable superheroes.

When this massive wooden temple ran out of rope, they made one out of devotees' hair.

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

An ordinary pond with fish from out of this world.

These Japanese ruins have been brought back to life with elaborately recreated buildings.

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

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

Bioluminescent firefly squid light up this Japanese fishing port.

This historic hydroelectric power plant in Japan has been preserved and is open to the public.

Roots and stumps that lay inundated for two millennia are on display in Japan's city of three mysteries.