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

This ancient shrine has been rebuilt every 20 years since the eighth century.

An infamous house made famous by director Takashi Shimizu.

Giant art made in Japanese rice fields.

Giant animal sculptures are created with the rice straw leftover from the fall harvest each year.

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

As the aging humans of this Japanese village die off one local artisan is replacing them with eerie homonculi.

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

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

A real-life replica of a home from Hayao Miyazaki's beloved movie "My Neighbor Totoro."

A Japanese corporation has turned this small island town into living modern art gallery.

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

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

The 43-mile route crosses through six islands with gorgeous views of the Seto Inland Sea.

Abandoned Japanese ghost town gives a glimpse into what our own metropolises may leave behind.

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

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