Places jeangaijin Wants to Go

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

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

The floats housed in this hall are more than 100 years old, and are brought out for an annual celebration.

Giant art made in Japanese rice fields.

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

A railway station takeout shop sells boxed meals in containers shaped like trains and snowmen that hold the country’s abundant regional delicacies.

A real-life replica of a home from Hayao Miyazaki's beloved movie "My Neighbor Totoro."

The enormous 250-room Vanderbilt mansion conceals hidden doors and secret passageways.

A dark Victorian well house now plays host to mystical waters and pagan shrines.

A steaming, boiling hellscape sources Hokkaido's thermal baths.

A massive cave complex boasts some of the clearest water (and most charming bats) in the world.

This neighborhood thoroughfare is haunted by dozens of homemade monsters.