Places mrholland66801 Wants to Go

This traditional Japanese-style house doubles as one of James Turrell's colorful works of art.

Take a lick of the legendary homemade miso paste that protected this Buddhist temple’s scrolls from a fire centuries ago.

When this clock strikes a certain time, puppets showcase a story of life in Edo Japan.

This museum showcases the art of ancient sword-making.

This museum is dedicated to the cultural history of tobacco and salt, once monopolized in Japan.

A 20-meter (65-foot) robot towers over Tokyo Bay.

Imitations of Chinese coins were minted here for foreign trade before Japan got its own currency.

Peer into this window for an interesting glimpse into the public utilities that make this city run.

A legend of a mysterious phantom train haunts this grave.

The buildings are among the few Frank Lloyd Wright structures still standing in Japan.

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

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

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

The bartenders at this crime-fighting theme cafe are actual private detectives by day.

A railway station takeout shop sells boxed meals in containers shaped like trains and snowmen that hold the country’s abundant regional delicacies.

Tokyo’s only Vaudeville-cuckoo clock–steampunk-Victorian curio cabinet time piece.

The original "capsule building" is a masterpiece of Metabolist architecture.

Starship-temple contains 400 tons of drinking water and offers free Japanese lessons.

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

A museum housed in a stunning Rockefeller-funded medical institute building from the 1930s.

An unexpected curiosity cabinet hidden within a department store in the Japan Post tower.

A beautiful work of art designed to impress the Allied Forces.

A touching statue dedicated to Japan's first therapy dog.

This atmospheric pre-war building is home to one of the few manually operated elevators left in Tokyo.