Places tagurit381 Wants to Go

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

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

Japan's first automaton went missing, only to be revived by the Osaka Science Museum.

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

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

Japan's largest collection of Western-style mansions in the port city of Kobe includes a recreation of Sherlock Holmes' 221B Baker Street quarters.

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

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

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

"Singing sands" and the world's largest hourglass reside near Japan's Kotogahama beach.

The floats housed in this hall are more than 100 years old, and are brought out for an annual celebration.

The traditional houses along the coast of this charming Japanese fishing village allow people to sleep above the sea.

An eerie maze of industrial factories looks like something out of a dystopian sci-fi.

A remote and slightly overgrown park filled with replicas of world landmarks.

This exacting restaurant will charge a fine for every grain of rice you've left behind.

The iconic castle that withstood a magnitude 6.2 earthquake has become a symbol of resilience.

A Japanese train station built around a 700-year-old camphor tree.

A network of sandy streets lined with verdant fukugi trees weaves throughout this tiny seaside town.

A derelict New Zealand-themed amusement park in Japan.

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

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

The giant figure on the back of this turtle-shaped temple actually hides a memorial pendulum.

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

One of the world's largest ancient burial mounds.