Places acouplefruits Wants to Go

This mom-and-pop Japanese sweets shop has been serving cloud-light mochi for almost a century.

Time travel with sweets across history at this research-based candy store.

This “peasant café” in the middle of Tokyo re-creates the atmosphere of the Japanese countryside.

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

A museum dedicated to the history of Tokyo's often-overlooked working-class district.

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

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

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

The legendary birthplace of the Japanese maneki-neko is dotted with hundreds of lucky beckoning cats.

Some of the freshest vegetables in Seoul are grown in a subway station.

The name of the only golden Buddhist temple in Korea translates as "the temple that protects the country."

Tracking the 1,500-year history of Korea's star cabbage.

At a Bangkok bistro, one pot of beef stew has been cooking non-stop for more than 45 years.

A restaurant on Staten Island showcases a different grandmother’s cooking every night.