Places BryanKnight Wants to Go

The tallest city hall in the world offers an excellent bento box.

A charming, homemade vending machine dispenses burgers and sandwiches at this hole-in-the-wall bakery.

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

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

Weighing nearly seven tons, this massive sculpture was carved out of 500-year-old wood and decorated with thousands of jewels.

This adorable birdlike police box is designed based on a play on words.

Rows of stone statues are dressed up to mourn children that are lost before birth.

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

This tiny museum hidden above a restaurant houses thousands of modern and traditional kites.

A flight of this "ghost staircase" has 40 steps on the way up, but only 39 steps on the way down.

The small candy-colored ride is the last rooftop Ferris wheel in Tokyo.

Discover the past, present, and future of packaging in this unique Japanese museum.

For hundreds of years, participants in this Japanese festival have been making babies cry to ward off demons.

A giant robo-cockroach building devours Tokyo.

This ordinary set of steps is a must-see destination for fans of a certain romantic anime.

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.

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

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

A King Kong-like gorilla hangs from the top of this commercial building in Tokyo.

People from around the world visit the shrine of Japan’s legendarily loyal dog.

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

This sprawling scenic burial ground is the final resting place of Japan's last shogun.

Thirty architectural gems from the 19th- and early 20th-century Tokyo were restored and relocated to this space.