Places kiviweeks Wants to Go

Reportedly 1,400 years old, this may be the first of the Fiji Mermaids.

Established over a thousand years ago, this family-run teahouse continues to serve skewers of sweet rice cake to this day.

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

Steaming blood-red hot spring from hell.

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

Dedicated to the armor and weapons used by the legendary Japanese warriors.

The self-mummified monks of Japan.

A massive cave complex boasts some of the clearest water (and most charming bats) in the world.

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

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

Japanese island famous for poison gas and fluffy bunnies.

A bibliophile's heaven that contains hundreds of bookstores, offering over a third of secondhand books for sale in Tokyo.

This subterranean spot might be the epitome of Japan's baroque, retro coffee houses.

This historical theme park celebrates all things noodle.

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

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

The oldest hotel in the world has been operated by the same family for over 1,300 years, even catering to samurai.

This massive wooden building contains a giant Buddha, healing pillars, and tame deer wandering the grounds.

Every color in the rainbow awaits.

Once a black market electronics marketplace, now an otaku shopper's paradise.

The magical, mossy forest that inspired 'Princess Mononoke.'

This neighborhood thoroughfare is haunted by dozens of homemade monsters.

If Hello Kitty were Mickey Mouse, this would be Disneyland.

Colloquially known as “piss alley,” this narrow street filled with tiny bars and barbecue stands looks like it was pulled straight out of “Blade Runner.”