JAPANESE COUNTRYSIDE

Roadside station Forest 276 Otaki looks like a log cabin, but its toilets are fit for a movie star.

This weird Yokohama restaurant threatens to curse you if you don't finish your noodles on time.

For experienced climbers and hikers, hitting the trail leading to the top of Mount Fuji from the fifth station is doable, from the first station is a challenge, but from the Pacific Coast? That's insane!

Little Miss Bento travels to Tochigi's most famous sightseeing spot for culinary inspiration.

The first place where you find leaves turning color in Japan is Hokkaido's Daisetsuzan National Park.

Although the outer space theme may throw you off, this rice field art was not designed by extraterrestrial beings, but by the residents of Gyoda City in Saitama Prefecture.

At Hitachi Seaside Park in Ibaraki, the poofy pink kochia plants of Kochia Hill—all 36,000 of them—look like something from a Dr. Seuss dreamscape in any season.

Late in November, take a trip to the Boso Peninsula in Chiba to enjoy the spectacular colors of Japanese maples and ginkgo trees in an array of vibrant reds and yellows.