Places juxu32 Wants to Go

Is this cat asleep or just pretending?

This park boasts a unusual collection of curious monuments from around the world, from Micronesia to Antarctica.

This massive, beautifully-lit underground quarry leaves visitors in awe.

A lonely chimpanzee lures you into a narrow alley leading to this hidden shrine.

These turtle-shaped concrete stepping stones provide a unique river crossing in central Kyoto.

Emerging from the sidewalk, this sculpture of a whale commemorates the importance of baleen in traditional Japanese puppetry.

The world's largest permanent architectural projection display entertains audiences nightly with 28-story light shows.

This water goblin statue represents a 19th-century urban legend about a haunted canal that became a Japanese idiom.

Japan's first automaton went missing, only to be revived by the Osaka Science Museum.

A remote and slightly overgrown park filled with replicas of world landmarks.

Tell this pair of "love-inviting" cats in Ginza your romantic hopes.

These wondrously illuminated caverns extend under the mountains of the Fukushima Prefecture.

A calico cat named Tama was the wildly popular Super Station Master at this train stop in southeast Japan.

A sobering scientific reminder of the human damage caused by the advent of the nuclear age.

If you forgot something to read during your trip to Tokyo, this hostel has you covered.

When this clock strikes a certain time, puppets showcase a story of life in Edo Japan.

White beach sands made of the remains of tiny, star shaped creatures.

An unlikely hit, this museum is dedicated to the inventor of instant ramen and cup noodles.

We heard you like volcanoes so we put a volcano in your volcano so you can die for sure...

A moss-covered statue of a Japanese Buddhist deity stands at a quiet temple in downtown Osaka.

Weighing nearly seven tons, this massive sculpture was carved out of 500-year-old wood and decorated with thousands of jewels.

A remarkable lava formation encloses a line of Buddhist statues that can't be accurately counted, according to local mythology.

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

Unusual hexagonal rocks formed by cooling lava named for their resemblance to traditional Japanese tatami mats.