The Giant Sleeping Buddha

The giant Sleeping Buddha in Fukuoka. Fukuoka is the capital city of Fukuoka Prefecture and is situated on the northern shore of the island of Kyushu in Japan. [Source]

Imperial Hotel, Tokyo

The Imperial Hotel, Tokyo, Japan, was created in the late 1880s at the request of the Japanese aristocracy to cater to the increasing number of western visitors to Japan. The hotel site is located just south of the Imperial Palace grounds, next to the previous location of the Palace moat. The modern hotel overlooks the Palace, the 40-acre (16 ha) western-style Hibiya Park, and the Ginza neighborhood. [Source]

Beautiful Matsumoto Castle

Matsumoto Castle is one of Japan’s historic castles. Located in the city of Matsumoto, in Nagano Prefecture. It is believed much of the castle was completed in 1593-4. This castle is also called Crow Castle because of its black walls and spreading wings. It is an example of a flatland castle, not being built on a hilltop or amid rivers. [Source]

Underwater Roller Coaster

Vanish roller coaster at Cosmo Land in Japan unexpectedly dives into an underwater tunnel. Can gain Awesome thrilling experience. [Source]

Japanese Balcony Tea Cups

These eye-catching balconies were part of a promotional strategy to market the range of teas produced by Niimi. These balcony cups look like they could double as barres. [Source]

Audi Forum Tokyo

Standing seven stories high in the middle of Tokyo's central business district and fashion center, Shibuya, 'The Iceberg' building was designed by Tokyo-based Creative Designers International (CDI). The Iceberg is a commercial building that features a unique structural system for supporting the asymmetrical glass façade and a completely transparent passenger lift shaft. [Source]

Mountain Farm in Japan

Mountain Farm is that farming in the mountain. And more mountain side people have similar farms. This is one of the mountain farm in Japan. [Source]

Tower of the Sun

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The Tower of the Sun is a building created by Japanese artist Tarō Okamoto. Originally, the tower was built for Expo '70 and housed in the Festival Plaza building known as "Big Roof" designed by Japanese architect Kenzo Tange. The tip of the tower projected out of the Big Roof's ceiling due to the height of the building. The tower's height is 70 metres, the diameter of the basement is 20 metres, and length of arms is 25 metres. [Wiki]

Nine floating Fountains

Again, it is not an optical illusion, but it is a good example of how to think different ! Isamu Noguchi last work for the world expo in Osaka, japan is “Nine floating Fountains”, where as he expanded water tap illusion one step further to create incredible fountains that looks like they are flying. [Source]

Traditional Japanese Temple

Temples are the places of worship in Japanese Buddhism. Virtually every Japanese municipality has at least one temple, while large cultural centers like Kyoto have several thousands. Temples store and display sacred Buddhist objects. Some temples used to be monasteries, and some still function as such. [Source]

Circular Residence Villa Ronde in Japan

Ciel Rouge has created a beautiful architecture circular residence called “Villa Ronde” in Japan. The residence is designed as a circular building with porous façade to allow the interior to experience the wind and natural light and also to provide panoramic views of the surrounding landscape. An inner garden that serves as a convention system in attracting fresh natural air is helpful in cross ventilation. [Source]

Amazing Kumamoto Castle

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Kumamoto Castle is a hilltop Japanese castle located in Chūō-ku, Kumamoto in Kumamoto Prefecture. Kumamoto Castle's history dates to 1467, when fortifications were established by Ideta Hidenobu.[1] In 1496, these fortifications were expanded by Kanokogi Chikakazu. The castle keep is a concrete reconstruction built in 1960, but several ancillary wooden buildings remain of the original castle. The castle was besieged in 1877 during the Satsuma Rebellion, and the castle keep and other parts were burned down. 13 of the buildings in the castle complex were undamaged, and have been designated Important Cultural Properties. [Wiki]

Amazing Roppongi Hills

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Roppongi Hills is a New Urban Center and one of Japan's largest integrated property developments, located in the Roppongi district of Minato, Tokyo. Roppongi Hills cost over $4 billion and is built on a 27 acre (109,000 m²) site. The site amalgamated more than 400 smaller lots Mori acquired over 14 years. Constructed by building tycoon Minoru Mori, the mega-complex incorporates office space, apartments, shops, restaurants, cafés, movie theaters, a museum, a hotel, a major TV studio, an outdoor amphitheater, and a few parks. The centerpiece is the 54-story Mori Tower. Mori's stated vision was to build an integrated development where high-rise inner-urban communities allow people to live, work, play, and shop in proximity to eliminate commuting time. [Wiki]

Beautiful Prada Tokyo Building

Prada's Tokyo store, in the fashionable Aoyama district, a mixed-use neighborhood of low-rise buildings where not a square meter of land has been left unoccupied, is the company's second radical approach to fashion-store architecture, following Rem Koolhaas’ Prada Flagship Store New York. The store was built by the Swiss architecture team of Herzog & de Meuron. [Source]

Amazing Himeji Castle

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Himeji Castle is a hilltop Japanese castle complex located in Himeji, in Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. The castle is frequently known as Hakuro-jo or Shirasagi-jo because of its brilliant white exterior and supposed resemblance to a bird taking flight. The castle is regarded as the finest surviving example of prototypical Japanese castle architecture, comprising a network of 83 buildings with advanced defensive systems from the feudal period. [Wiki]

Beautiful Kiyomizu-dera

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Kiyomizu-dera officially Otowa-san Kiyomizu-dera is an independent Buddhist temple in eastern Kyoto. Kiyomizu-dera was founded in the early Heian period. The temple was founded in 798, and its present buildings were constructed in 1633, ordered by the Tokugawa Iemitsu. [Wiki]

Asakusa Culture Tourist Information Center

Featuring Kengo Kuma’s signature architectural moves, this new cultural centre in a Tokyo district known for Senso-ji, its colourful Buddhist temple, is set to add new layers to the Asakusa experience. In 2005 Kengo Kuma was a juror for an international architecture competition sponsored by Japanese telecom NTT DOCOMO. [Source]

Amazing Tokyo Skytree

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Tokyo Skytree is a broadcasting, restaurant, and observation tower in Sumida, Tokyo, Japan. The tower has seismic proofing, including a central shaft made of reinforced concrete. The main internal pillar is attached to the outer tower structure 125 meters (410 ft) above ground. It became the tallest structure in Japan in 2010 and reached its full height of 634.0 metres (2,080 ft). [Wiki]

Abandoned Hashima Island

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The island was populated from 1887 to 1974 as a coal mining facility. The island's most notable features are the abandoned and undisturbed concrete apartment buildings and the surrounding sea wall. It is known for its coal mines and their operation during the industrialization of Japan. Mitsubishi bought the island in 1890 and began the project, the aim of which was retrieving coal from undersea mines. The island is increasingly gaining international attention not only generally for its modern regional heritage, but also for the undisturbed housing complex remnants representative of the period from the Taishō period to the Shōwa period. [Wiki]

The National Art Center, Tokyo

The National Art Center, Tokyo is located in the Roppongi district at the center of Tokyo. The building is made up of seven enormous column-less display rooms, each 2000m², a library, an auditorium, a restaurant, a cafe and a museum shop. The National Art Center, Tokyo will not be a space for archiving works of art, but is a space for exhibiting public open exhibits and travelling exhibits. [Source]