Midori-ku, Japan
The Hotel Royal
This seven story Japanese love hotel now stands in ruins.
Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Midori-ku, Japan
This seven story Japanese love hotel now stands in ruins.
Mutsu, Japan
This mountain's identity is stuck somewhere between a nightmare and a scenic tourist attraction.
Ashibetsu, Japan
A semi-abandoned replica of Prince Edward Island's Avonlea—in Japan.
Shingo, Japan
A small Japanese village claims to be the final resting place of the son of God (and God's other son's ear).
Otsuchi, Japan
A disconnected rotary phone for "calling" lost loved ones offered a unique way of dealing with grief in disaster-stricken Japan.
Wakayama, Japan
A Japanese shrine to dolls.
Takasaki, Japan
Each year this Japanese temple overflows with scowling, bearded good luck talismans.
Mito, Japan
The ruin of a Japanese love hotel almost completely overgrown with brambles.
Nagoro, Japan
As the aging humans of this Japanese village die off one local artisan is replacing them with eerie homonculi.
Tokyo, Japan
A Catholicism-themed restaurant where sacrilege is on the menu.
Miyakejima, Japan
Sulphuric gases inhabit a beautiful Japanese island.
Mito, Japan
The ruins of Japan’s premier water brothel.
Mito, Japan
This ruined Japanese stripclub sits half burnt to the ground.
Naoshima, Japan
A Japanese corporation has turned this small island town into living modern art gallery.
Aogashima, Japan
We heard you like volcanoes so we put a volcano in your volcano so you can die for sure...
Hachimantai, Japan
Abandoned Japanese ghost town gives a glimpse into what our own metropolises may leave behind.
Tsuruoka, Japan
The self-mummified monks of Japan.
Tokyo, Japan
Shrine to Japanese water-goblins, complete with their preserved body parts.
Tokyo, Japan
The original "capsule building" is a masterpiece of Metabolist architecture.
Tokyo, Japan
The legendary birthplace of the Japanese maneki-neko is dotted with hundreds of lucky beckoning cats.
Tokyo, Japan
A Japanese concept restaurant that feels like a party thrown by the monsters in your closet.
Hitachinaka, Japan
Every autumn, this hillside is ablaze with red summer cypress.
Nagasaki, Japan
Once the most densely populated place in the world, this island is now a ghost town.
Tokyo, Japan
Cabaret where the show girls are all androids, and the patrons couldn't be more pleased.