Places danieldixon Wants to Go

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

The freshest fish here are the ones you catch yourself.

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

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

A 70-foot-deep ice cave formed by lava from Mt. Fuji on the edge of Japan's "Suicide Forest." 

This spa theme park lets its guests take a dip in pools of coffee, wine, or ramen broth.

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

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

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

Transport yourself to the 1980s era of video games at this themed restaurant and bar.

The original "capsule building" is a masterpiece of Metabolist architecture.

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

This faux-seedy Japanese arcade is made up to look like a maze of alleys straight out of a cyberpunk dystopia.

The world's shortest escalator doesn't seem to have any reason to exist other than to hold a world record.

Every color in the rainbow awaits.

Burial mound for the ears and noses of thousands of mutilated Korean soldiers.

A tiny collection of traditional Japanese woodblock prints, open only when the owner feels like it.