Existing for more than four centuries, the last of Hakone’s historic teahouses serves a sweet, mold-based rice drink.

Legend holds eating just one of these black eggs can add seven years to one's life.

This spa theme park lets its guests take a dip in pools of coffee, wine, or ramen broth.

Modern Japanese museum is buried by snow annually.

There's light and a dreamlike panorama at the end of this tunnel.

This ancient temple is set up to take you on a pilgrimage of self.

This 24-hour vending machine serves up homemade treats inspired by the local Japanese snow monkeys.

This sawtooth mountain range still bears the strangely lovely marks of its history as a medieval quarry.

This airy five-floor library and museum houses thousands of books and rotating exhibits on Japanese monsters and anime.

Open-air museum with an elaborate sculpture garden, stretching for over 70,000 square-meters.

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

A unique Shinto shrine filled with bunnies and wordplay.

The only natural gorge in metropolitan Tokyo, with lots of greenery and ancient burial chambers.

This “grave” memorializes the 53 rakugo stories that were once banned by the national censorship.

Closed for decades, this strange symbol of Japan's Expo '70 has finally opened its psychedelic insides to the public.

A precursor to Taro Okamoto’s iconic Tower of the Sun.

Home to a legend of the supernatural raccoon dog, a rare wooden structure of Edo, and witnesses of the Tokyo bombings.

This strange mural located in the Ueno station is filled with traditional Japanese symbolism.

Rubbing salt on this small stone dog is said to make wishes come true.

The site of Japan’s first archaeological excavation is also the birthplace of fingerprint forensics.

Exploring crime and punishment in feudal and pre-modern Japan.

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

Watch out for the two-story Godzilla made out of tires.

Tell this pair of "love-inviting" cats in Ginza your romantic hopes.