Places CShigeoK Wants to Go

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

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

More tin toys than you can shake a clapping monkey at.

Modern Japanese museum is buried by snow annually.

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

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

Ever needed a chocolate-filled crepe in the wee hours of the morning?

One of the largest producers of MSG in the world welcomes visitors to its Kawasaki factory with an albino panda named Aji-Kun.

Roots and stumps that lay inundated for two millennia are on display in Japan's city of three mysteries.

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

Sulphuric gases inhabit a beautiful Japanese island.

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

An abandoned Art Deco hotel nestled on the side of a wooded mountain.

A dilapidated amusement park with a million-dollar view.

The giant figure on the back of this turtle-shaped temple actually hides a memorial pendulum.

An eerie maze of industrial factories looks like something out of a dystopian sci-fi.

A small Japanese village claims to be the final resting place of the son of God (and God's other son's ear).

This giant bronze Buddha, the third largest in Japan, is the last in an ill-fated series of statues.

A statue erected on an infamous cliff where young boys would hold dangerous "pee offs" to prove their mettle.

A sculpture that resurrected the only tree standing following the devastating 2011 tsunami.

A sobering scientific reminder of the human damage caused by the advent of the nuclear age.

A mysterious set of tunnels carved in the hills of rural northern Kyushu.

Devoted Buddhists can earn enlightenment in the next life by crawling through this symbolic nostril.

Giant art made in Japanese rice fields.