Places donguri Wants to Go

With over 100 jam-packed rooms to explore plus elaborate tea services and events, the Mansion on O Street is a hidden treasure.

The only Leonardo Da Vinci painting in the Western Hemisphere.

A strip of traditional hand towel serves as an admission ticket at this modern tenugui museum.

It is believed that this Buddhist temple stands right on the gateway to the underworld.

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

The cemetery houses the remains of Jun’ichirō Tanizaki, one of Japan's most famous novelists.

View Japan's most historic city from a cyberpunk walkway suspended 150 feet above the ground.

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

This kitsch-forward diner is dedicated to an almost-forgotten “one-cent” prototype of okonomiyaki.

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

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.

Shrine dedicated to boars that is believed to cure foot and leg injuries.

The first location of the eventual video game giant.

This 400-year-old sweet shop serves a delicacy some have described as "edible incense."

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

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

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

The cutest shrine in Kyoto is dedicated to bunnies.

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

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

This Kyoto Starbucks takes coffee drinkers back in time.

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

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

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