The site where the poet Matsuo Bashō read one of the first haiku that comprise his famous travelogue.

This museum showcases the art of ancient sword-making.

This battleship of a building was designed by a famed "mad architect."

A giant robo-cockroach building devours Tokyo.

The original location of the eponymous site of Japan’s Yayoi period is now lost in time.

One of the few surviving World War II-era air-raid shelters in Tokyo.

After being lost for decades, this striking mural depicting the atomic bomb covers the wall of a busy Tokyo metro station.