This bathhouse includes an option to soak in radioactive water.

In a rural Japanese town that has committed to sustainable practices, even the hotel is made from recycled materials.

Would you spend the night in Japan's deepest train station?

This small Japanese street is lined with figures, sculptures and a shrine dedicated to frogs.

The "largest bathroom stall in the world" offers a unique pit-stop experience.

The former home of queer novelist Yoshiya Nobuko memorializes her contributions to modern-day manga.

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

Along the side of the road on a small Japanese island is an extensive garden of uniquely designed Shisa statues.

This little town supplies Japan with most of its calligraphy brushes, still made by hand from animal fur.

Though technically an illegal structure, this eclectic DIY apartment complex is beloved by its residents.

Steampunk, humanoid sculptures crawl on all fours in a Tokyo plaza.

The floats housed in this hall are more than 100 years old, and are brought out for an annual celebration.

Visitors to this museum will discover that kaleidoscopes are much more than toys.

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

450 dead and frozen fish, proudly on display in Japan.

An eerie maze of industrial factories looks like something out of a dystopian sci-fi.

This traditional Japanese-style house doubles as one of James Turrell's colorful works of art.

Sidle into a side alley for a taste of sumo wrestlers' traditional hot-pot soup, in a tiny restaurant founded by a former competitor.

A calico cat named Tama was the wildly popular Super Station Master at this train stop in southeast Japan.

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

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.

Rows of stone statues are dressed up to mourn children that are lost before birth.

If you forgot something to read during your trip to Tokyo, this hostel has you covered.

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