Places lmfurst Wants to Go

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

The bartenders at this crime-fighting theme cafe are actual private detectives by day.

Tragic reminders of the 1945 firebombing campaign over Tokyo still haunt this bridge.

This Buddhist temple is home to the graves of the Japanese national legends, the 47 Ronin.

A Buddhist temple to honor insects that died for science.

If you forgot something to read during your trip to Tokyo, this hostel has you covered.

Not quite the menace it once was, this monster still has some chops.

This battleship of a building was designed by a famed "mad architect."

Composed of scrap metal, a pair of platform-length murals chronicle Japan’s history, from the Big Bang to the development of modern Tokyo.

Disused for decades, this freight railway bridge is finally being renovated into a scenic promenade.

A Buddhist temple on an artificial island that houses a monument to the fugu fish.

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

An ordinary pond with fish from out of this world.

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

Emerging from the sidewalk, this sculpture of a whale commemorates the importance of baleen in traditional Japanese puppetry.

Once a black market electronics marketplace, now an otaku shopper's paradise.

Tokyo’s only Vaudeville-cuckoo clock–steampunk-Victorian curio cabinet time piece.

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

A cool dive bar, off the beaten track.

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

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

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

A taste of the macabre Tokyo's ritzy shopping district.

This Metabolist, retro-futuristic residential complex resembles a cyberpunk space colony established on Earth.