Places PobbleFrog Wants to Go

This 400-year-old sweet shop serves a delicacy some have described as "edible incense."

This adorable birdlike police box is designed based on a play on words.

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

You can still find treasures on the pebbly beaches of one of the world's oldest jade-producing areas.

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

Each year this Japanese temple overflows with scowling, bearded good luck talismans.

A flight of this "ghost staircase" has 40 steps on the way up, but only 39 steps on the way down.

The largest volcanic caldera in Japan holds an entire city in its maw.

A moss-covered statue of a Japanese Buddhist deity stands at a quiet temple in downtown Osaka.

An unlikely hit, this museum is dedicated to the inventor of instant ramen and cup noodles.

Closed for decades, this strange symbol of Japan's Expo '70 has finally opened its psychedelic insides to the public.

This 14th-century temple is also known as the "Temple of the Golden Pavilion" for its gorgeous gilded reliquary hall.

One of the world's largest tanks mimics the experience of watching rare whale sharks, giant rays, and deep sea creatures from the ocean floor.

This pair of small sea rocks has been "wed" using rope and ancient Shinto tradition.

Enormous underground chamber built to detect 'ghost particles' of the universe.

The world's largest drain sits below the city of Kasukabe, Japan.

An astounding annual light display honors the victims of one of Japan's most devastating earthquakes.

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

We heard you like volcanoes so we put a volcano in your volcano so you can die for sure...

An unexpected curiosity cabinet hidden within a department store in the Japan Post tower.

Stuck in a bygone era, the oldest subterranean shopping street in Japan hides beneath the popular Asakusa district of Tokyo.

A steaming, boiling hellscape sources Hokkaido's thermal baths.

Peace Park and the Atomic Bomb Dome.

The cutest shrine in Kyoto is dedicated to bunnies.