Places deriverative Wants to Go

Giant animal sculptures are created with the rice straw leftover from the fall harvest each year.

Enjoy traditional Louisiana-style gumbo and the spirit of Southern hospitality 7,000 miles from New Orleans.

A Japanese corporation has turned this small island town into living modern art gallery.

Archaeologists continue to debate whether this site yielded the oldest human remains in Japan.

This natural spring was once an important source of freshwater for the salty (former) island of Naha

All that remains of Okinawa's royal temple are a restored gateway and a tall banyan tree.

The seat of the lost Ryukyu Kingdom has survived numerous fires and wars over the centuries.

For half a century, this Arabian-inspired retro café has been an oasis for locals in Okinawa’s central tourist area.

The location of the site of one of the defining battles of feudal Japan is being fought over by two neighboring cities.

A collection of trees from each of the 47 Japanese prefectures.

In a shopping arcade, a modernized temple deeply tied to feudal Japan’s prominent warlords.

A replica of an ancient alien-like idol humorously represents spectacles in a corner of this shrine complex.

This giant fashion model is one of the most beloved symbols of Nagoya.

This ruined Japanese stripclub sits half burnt to the ground.

The ruins of Japan’s premier water brothel.

The ruin of a Japanese love hotel almost completely overgrown with brambles.

The only electricity pylon built over two lanes of traffic.

This beautiful defunct water tower adds a European flair to a traditional Japanese neighborhood.

A park built around the legend of a clam-loving giant who created a monumental midden.

This traditional Japanese shrine is dedicated to four Shinto deities.

This small Japanese street is lined with figures, sculptures and a shrine dedicated to frogs.

This historic castle is one of the oldest and most impressive in all of Japan.

Would you spend the night in Japan's deepest train station?

This little known mountain has claimed four times as many lives as Everest.