Places deriverative Wants to Go

Unlikely place for krautrock legends to hang out.

Starship-temple contains 400 tons of drinking water and offers free Japanese lessons.

A giant robo-cockroach building devours Tokyo.

A 20-meter (65-foot) robot towers over Tokyo Bay.

The demolished ruins of a poorly located Japanese Love Hotel.

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

Fine dining in the bizarre world of Lewis Carroll.

Disaster prevention apartment blocks in Sumida Ward are designed to save as many as possible in the face of the inevitable.

Serving you alcohol with a side of insanity. Also, costumes!

After a profound show of devotion for his master, a dog becomes the symbol of loyalty for an entire nation.

Cabaret where the show girls are all androids, and the patrons couldn't be more pleased.

The freshest fish here are the ones you catch yourself.

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

Japanese company creates clone dolls that reside in the "uncanny valley."

Japan's corrupt-mental-institution themed restaurant offers diners a chance to eat inside of filthy cells.

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

Underground farm located in a former bank vault deep within the bowels of Tokyo's business district.

Shrine to Japanese water-goblins, complete with their preserved body parts.

If Hello Kitty were Mickey Mouse, this would be Disneyland.

This little replica of Lady Liberty provides a bit of NYC in a Japanese city.

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

An ordinary pond with fish from out of this world.

Every color in the rainbow awaits.

Meet the world's longest tapeworm in a collection that really gets under your skin.