Places deriverative Wants to Go

A Buddhist temple to honor insects that died for science.

For hundreds of years, participants in this Japanese festival have been making babies cry to ward off demons.

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

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

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

Watch out for the two-story Godzilla made out of tires.

A tiny cafe that recreates the Japanese elementary school lunch experience.

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

A Catholicism-themed restaurant where sacrilege is on the menu.

A Japanese concept restaurant that feels like a party thrown by the monsters in your closet.

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

Go through the looking glass in Tokyo's Wonderland-themed shop.

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

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

This sprawling scenic burial ground is the final resting place of Japan's last shogun.

The small candy-colored ride is the last rooftop Ferris wheel in Tokyo.

An unexpected curiosity cabinet hidden within a department store in the Japan Post tower.

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

Rows of stone statues are dressed up to mourn children that are lost before birth.

Haunted house kitsch meets Japanese folklore at this theme bar where patrons can “die” and have their own mock funeral.

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

One of three official copies of Marcel Duchamp's enigmatic masterpiece is on display in an obscure Tokyo museum.

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

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