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This time capsule lets you enjoy decades-old Japanese arcade games.

The world's largest permanent architectural projection display entertains audiences nightly with 28-story light shows.

Tokyo’s only Ainu restaurant serves Indigenous food from northern Japan.

Meet the world's longest tapeworm in a collection that really gets under your skin.

A painting marks the site of a historic skyscraper destroyed by the Great Kantō earthquake.

An oddly touching memorial to a little-remembered nuclear tragedy.

Go through the looking glass in Tokyo's Wonderland-themed shop.

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

Every color in the rainbow awaits.

Drinkslinger is an unlikely vocation for a Buddhist monk, but at this Tokyo bar the enlightenment is served in a martini glass.

You can receive a blessing for your electronics at this Shinto shrine near Akihabara.

It's bad manners to eat and drink on the subways of Tokyo, unless the train is this bar. 

The tallest bronze seated statue of the Buddha in Japan.

This mesmerizingly colorful pond looks like a scene straight out of a fairytale.

A semi-abandoned replica of Prince Edward Island's Avonlea—in Japan.

A steaming, boiling hellscape sources Hokkaido's thermal baths.

Learn about the indigenous people of Japan's northernmost islands.

This exacting restaurant will charge a fine for every grain of rice you've left behind.

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

This enormous monument is one of the most iconic structures in Tokyo, rudely nicknamed "The Golden Turd."

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

Sidle into a side alley for a taste of sumo wrestlers' traditional hot-pot soup, in a tiny restaurant founded by a former competitor.

Luminaries from Albert Einstein to John Lennon once had a cup of coffee at Tokyo's oldest café.

An ordinary pond with fish from out of this world.