Places deriverative Wants to Go

The quintessential Japanese rock garden has existed for more than 500 years.

When this massive wooden temple ran out of rope, they made one out of devotees' hair.

This 700-year-old street food market features baby octopus and soy donuts.

A shrine contains nearly 200 statues of the Buddhist deity Jizo, dressed in bibs by parents who have lost a child.

Crawl through the hole in the middle of this stone to break off a bad relationship or initiate a good one.

Twelve hundred stone carvings guard this off-the-beaten-path Buddhist temple.

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

With over 12,000 different species of plants, this botanical garden is Japan's oldest and most diverse.

This Kyoto Starbucks takes coffee drinkers back in time.

One of Kyoto's oldest food establishments has supplied soba noodles to temple priests and the Imperial Palace.

This 14th-century temple is also known as the "Temple of the Golden Pavilion" for its gorgeous gilded reliquary hall.

The site where the famous city gate once stood, now in the middle of a playground.

A train ride to the middle of nowhere gives its passengers some of the most iconic views of Japan's seasons.

Have a soak at this retro bathhouse, where you will find Japan's first electric bath, tiling from Spain, and wood carvings representing the Japanese invasion of Manchuria.

More than 300 years old, Kyoto's historic "teahouse" still operates as an invitation-only geisha club.

The cutest shrine in Kyoto is dedicated to bunnies.

Established over a thousand years ago, this family-run teahouse continues to serve skewers of sweet rice cake to this day.

This garden located inside a bamboo forest once belonged to a famous Japanese actor.

A small shrine dedicated to a god of lightning and electronics.

The first location of the eventual video game giant.

An LED art installation composed of 600 poles wrapped in kimono fabric.

This statue of Buddha has a distinctive hairstyle meant to represent an unfathomably long period of meditation.

An ancient Greek physician is honored as a god at this hole-in-the-wall shrine.

Visitors to this museum will discover that kaleidoscopes are much more than toys.