Places CShigeoK Wants to Go

This seven story Japanese love hotel now stands in ruins.

Nestled in an unassuming residential area, this "forbidden forest" is rumored to spirit away those who dare enter it.

One of the tallest statues in the world, and the tallest statue of a goddess in Japan.

Ruins and statues dot the landscape of this tiny island rich with royal history.

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

You can still find treasures on the pebbly beaches of one of the world's oldest jade-producing areas.

Japan's largest and oldest annual procession of floats, begun in 869.

This exacting restaurant will charge a fine for every grain of rice you've left behind.

Japan's largest collection of Western-style mansions in the port city of Kobe includes a recreation of Sherlock Holmes' 221B Baker Street quarters.

A Japanese train station built around a 700-year-old camphor tree.

A moss-covered statue of a Japanese Buddhist deity stands at a quiet temple in downtown Osaka.

One of the world's largest ancient burial mounds.

The Yonaguni Monument, a natural formation or the Japanese Atlantis?

"Bug Bug" Land, a natural park for beetle watching, still hasn't fully recovered from Fukushima's nuclear disaster.

This historic hydroelectric power plant in Japan has been preserved and is open to the public.

This ancient shrine has been rebuilt every 20 years since the eighth century.

A thick blanket of beautiful pampas grass cloaks this unique Japanese landscape.

A remote and slightly overgrown park filled with replicas of world landmarks.

A strange tribute to all the fallen souls of war.

450 dead and frozen fish, proudly on display in Japan.

This beautiful Japanese garden is a memorial to the samurai who literally wrote the book on business as martial art.

A small island with no monkeys but plenty of military ruins.

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

Shrine dedicated to boars that is believed to cure foot and leg injuries.