This retro café is a remnant of Japan’s post-war Argentine tango craze.

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

Every spring, this walkway outside the Japan Mint turns into a cherry blossom tunnel.

Home to the world's oldest wooden building.

This water goblin statue represents a 19th-century urban legend about a haunted canal that became a Japanese idiom.

An enormous pair of straw sandals woven in the traditional way—to keep demons at bay.

This bizarre residential building is the masterpiece of Von Jour Caux, the “Gaudí of Japan.”