Places PobbleFrog Wants to Go

This village is home to the largest existing settlement of the Ainu, the Indigenous people of Japan.

A statue of a mischievous raccoon towers over this city park.

This giant seated Bhudda of Healing dates to the 1780s.

This quirky little private museum is home to more than a thousand stones, carved by nature, that resemble human faces.

The site of Japan’s first archaeological excavation is also the birthplace of fingerprint forensics.

A touching statue dedicated to Japan's first therapy dog.

According to one legend, this bridge was crafted after monkeys formed a body-bridge across the gorge.

Home to the world's oldest wooden building.

This ancient burial site was once thought to be the home of a race distinctive to Ainu folklore.

High in the mountains of Kochi Prefecture, a magnificent library designed by a world-famous architect.

Visitors to this park are welcomed by an ancient Japanese megalithic tomb that dates back to the sixth century.

A whimsical museum dedicated to the mischievous kappa, a mythical cucumber-loving water sprite.

This shrine dedicated to a legendary swordsman has become a pilgrimage site for the ill and infirmed.

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

The only Edo-period ferry that is still in operation in Tokyo today.

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.

One of the world's largest ancient burial mounds.

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

This incredible mountainside temple is home to intriguing statues of demon-like creatures.

Visitors to this museum will discover that kaleidoscopes are much more than toys.

This enormous monument is one of the most iconic structures in Tokyo, rudely nicknamed "The Golden Turd."

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

This garden located inside a bamboo forest once belonged to a famous Japanese actor.

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