This garden located inside a bamboo forest once belonged to a famous Japanese actor.

Every color in the rainbow awaits.

A touching statue dedicated to Japan's first therapy dog.

This monument celebrates this shopping district's past history as a feudal silver mint.

Tell this pair of "love-inviting" cats in Ginza your romantic hopes.

Tokyo’s only Vaudeville-cuckoo clock–steampunk-Victorian curio cabinet time piece.

Unbeknownst to most passersby, this marble statue standing outside an office building is a genuine piece of second-century Rome.

People from around the world visit the shrine of Japan’s legendarily loyal dog.

Surreal giant face-pillars welcome visitors from across the globe to this hotel.

These sculptures were created by a 17th-century artist who had never seen an elephant.

Stretching for 22 miles, the world's longest tree-lined avenue dates back to the early 17th-century.

See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.

Is this cat asleep or just pretending?

An eerie reminder to the horrors of World War II.

A 14th-century European chapel sticks out of the facade of a Japanese hotel.

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

Devoted Buddhists can earn enlightenment in the next life by crawling through this symbolic nostril.

Burial mound for the ears and noses of thousands of mutilated Korean soldiers.

The largest of the Fuji Five Lakes is home to an impressive swan population—some real, some with paddles, and one with an observation deck.

The Hanshin Expressway goes right through its 5th, 6th, and 7th floors.

A shrine contains nearly 200 statues of the Buddhist deity Jizo, dressed in bibs by parents who have lost a child.

Peace Park and the Atomic Bomb Dome.

A bronze statue dating back as far as 1252, still has remnants of gold on its right cheek from ancient gilding.

This Japanese national treasure was originally built in 593.