The only Kurdish restaurant in Japan invites you to learn and feast.

Over 40 species of fern cover the canyon walls of this lush green bowl, cut off from the bustle of the world by a cave entrance.

The statue's head is one of the few fragments of the original Urakami Cathedral to survive the atomic bomb.

Japan's hottest hot spring has a memorable name.

A hub of information on tropical diseases and their treatments.

Ruins and statues dot the landscape of this tiny island rich with royal history.

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

Sulphuric gases inhabit a beautiful Japanese island.

Narrow passes cut out of mountains surround the medieval capital of Japan.

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

What's believed to be the country's first shrine is, in Shintō mythology, the annual meeting place of the gods.

Modern Japanese museum is buried by snow annually.

A small island with no monkeys but plenty of military ruins.

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

These unique toilets feature transparent glass covered in PDLC film.

Elaborate series of tunnels where traces of mass suicide are still visible.

Make your own fake treats at this factory and workshop in the epicenter of Japan's food replica industry.

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

A mysterious set of tunnels carved in the hills of rural northern Kyushu.

A massive wintry wall of snow up to 66 feet tall flanks a highway through Japan's mountains.

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.

Children's literature inside, forest all around.

This active volcano's siren song to suicide jumpers forced authorities to build a fence.

The divine septet of Japanese fortune gods are rendered in 1,000 year old wood at this peaceful site.