After being lost for decades, this striking mural depicting the atomic bomb covers the wall of a busy Tokyo metro station.

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

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

A strange tribute to all the fallen souls of war.

Be a ninja - or just act like one.

Abandoned Japanese ghost town gives a glimpse into what our own metropolises may leave behind.

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

This historical theme park celebrates all things noodle.

Once the most densely populated place in the world, this island is now a ghost town.

This faux-seedy Japanese arcade is made up to look like a maze of alleys straight out of a cyberpunk dystopia.

On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.