Places AriAlbD Wants to Go

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

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

Blowtorches, tuna, and a jolly, chain-smoking proprietor mark this beloved street-food stand.

One of Kyoto's oldest food establishments has supplied soba noodles to temple priests and the Imperial Palace.

An unlikely hit, this museum is dedicated to the inventor of instant ramen and cup noodles.

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

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

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

A restaurant modeled after feudal Japan, where the waitstaff are trained as ninjas.

An extravagant monument to an extravagantly unpopular Emperor.

Perhaps the only one of its kind, the nearly-forgotten site once held mortal (and rigged) gladiatorial games between tigers and imperial war elephants.

A cityscape of burial tombs that you can easily lose yourself in.

Vietnam's largest Buddha statue depicts a female sage.

This spectacular bridge supported by two gigantic hands looks like something out of a fantasy universe.

This antique shop offers affordable 15th-century Vietnamese ceramics salvaged from a local shipwreck.

This cavern was used as a hidden hospital and safe house during the Vietnam War.

Drink and learn at this striking ode to coffee culture and history.

This Vietnamese bar doubles as a multistory labyrinth.

For a taste of Vietnamese gastropub culture, look no further than this convivial seafood joint that stays open till midnight.

A refugee returns to his homeland to open Ho Chi Minh City’s first Michelin-starred restaurant.

This historic spot was where America's involvement in the Vietnam War officially came to an end.

Nearly three tons of weapons from the Vietnam War still remain in this small, hidden museum.

A memorial to the monk who set himself on fire to protest the persecution of Buddhists in Vietnam.

An ornate tomb pays tribute to one of the most influential and cherished military leaders in Vietnam's history.