Places remcrae Wants to Go

The 10,000 Torii shrine.

1,001 carved statues of the Buddhist God of Mercy, each with a unique face.

Shrine dedicated to boars that is believed to cure foot and leg injuries.

This neighborhood thoroughfare is haunted by dozens of homemade monsters.

Birthplace of the Tendai sect and home to the marathon monks.

"Bug Bug" Land, a natural park for beetle watching, still hasn't fully recovered from Fukushima's nuclear disaster.

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

Sulphuric gases inhabit a beautiful Japanese island.

Experience park where visitors are told to expect the unexpected.

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

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

This sawtooth mountain range still bears the strangely lovely marks of its history as a medieval quarry.

Bioluminescent firefly squid light up this Japanese fishing port.

A small island with no monkeys but plenty of military ruins.

An oddly touching memorial to a little-remembered nuclear tragedy.

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

One of the largest producers of MSG in the world welcomes visitors to its Kawasaki factory with an albino panda named Aji-Kun.

This faux-seedy Japanese arcade is made up to look like a maze of alleys straight out of a cyberpunk dystopia.

Every color in the rainbow awaits.

For hundreds of years, participants in this Japanese festival have been making babies cry to ward off demons.

Shrine to Japanese water-goblins, complete with their preserved body parts.

Japanese company creates clone dolls that reside in the "uncanny valley."

After a profound show of devotion for his master, a dog becomes the symbol of loyalty for an entire nation.

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