Disaster prevention apartment blocks in Sumida Ward are designed to save as many as possible in the face of the inevitable.

Barbies stare from the walls, sit on the tables, and even pop out of cakes at this quirky cafe.

This enormous "shamoji" means more to the people of Miyajima than just a way getting rice onto a plate.

More tin toys than you can shake a clapping monkey at.

A Japanese shrine to dolls.

An infamous house made famous by director Takashi Shimizu.

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

Japan's largest area of "pink moss" turns the hillside bright pink every spring.

This little replica of Lady Liberty provides a bit of NYC in a Japanese city.

Oddly touching memorial to a little-remembered nuclear tragedy.

Shells collected from over a hundred different countries line the walls, floors and ceilings of this fantasy museum.

Twelve hundred stone carvings guard this off-the-beaten-path Buddhist temple.

This ruined Japanese stripclub sits half burnt to the ground.

Unusual hexagonal rocks formed by cooling lava named for their resemblance to traditional Japanese tatami mats.