A 17th-century Shinto shrine that is home to statues of Mickey Mouse and Pikachu.

The small candy-colored ride is the last rooftop Ferris wheel in Tokyo.

A giant robo-cockroach building devours Tokyo.

This tiny museum hidden above a restaurant houses thousands of modern and traditional kites.

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

The tallest city hall in the world offers an excellent bento box.

Stuck in a bygone era, the oldest subterranean shopping street in Japan hides beneath the popular Asakusa district of Tokyo.

For hundreds of years, participants in this Japanese festival have been making babies cry to ward off demons.

Oddly touching memorial to a little-remembered nuclear tragedy.

An unexpected curiosity cabinet hidden within a department store in the Japan Post tower.

Discover the past, present, and future of packaging in this unique Japanese museum.

A museum dedicated to the history of Tokyo's often-overlooked working-class district.

Inside the columbarium, thousands of colorful, high-tech Buddhas guard the ashes of the dead.

Starship-temple contains 400 tons of drinking water and offers free Japanese lessons.

A Buddhist temple to honor insects that died for science.

A railway station takeout shop sells boxed meals in containers shaped like trains and snowmen that hold the country’s abundant regional delicacies.

Transport yourself to the 1980s era of video games at this themed restaurant and bar.

Shrine to Japanese water-goblins, complete with their preserved body parts.

This Buddhist temple is home to the graves of the Japanese national legends, the 47 Ronin.

A 20-meter (65-foot) robot towers over Tokyo Bay.

The legendary birthplace of the Japanese maneki-neko is dotted with hundreds of lucky beckoning cats.

Every color in the rainbow awaits.

A remote lodge nestled among some of the world's best-preserved rainforests.

A monument built to commemorate the billionth barrel of oil extracted from the Seria oil field in Brunei.