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

This beautiful Japanese garden is a memorial to the samurai who literally wrote the book on business as martial art.

This incredible mountainside temple is home to intriguing statues of demon-like creatures.

One in a pair of subterranean caves created by an ancient eruption of Mount Fuji.

One of the world's largest ancient burial mounds.

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

The world's longest tunnel with an undersea section.

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

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

A monk-run winery inside a Buddhist temple celebrates Japan's crown grape varietal.

A Japanese train station built around a 700-year-old camphor tree.

This historic hydroelectric power plant in Japan has been preserved and is open to the public.

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

An eerie reminder to the horrors of World War II.

Have a soak at this retro bathhouse, where you will find Japan's first electric bath, tiling from Spain, and wood carvings representing the Japanese invasion of Manchuria.

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

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

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

A sculpture that resurrected the only tree standing following the devastating 2011 tsunami.

A remote and slightly overgrown park filled with replicas of world landmarks.

Take a few seconds to look at this abandoned, art-filled station as you pass by on the subway to Ueno.

This giant bronze Buddha, the third largest in Japan, is the last in an ill-fated series of statues.

Mythical beasts symbolizing the city of Tokyo guard a historic bridge.

The third-tallest statue in the world depicts the "Buddha of Infinite Light," complete with observation deck in his chest.