Places Kan Cho Wants to Go

This snack factory boasts several tributes to its popular line of rice crackers, including a quasi-shrine.

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

Museum dedicated to the largest battleship ever built.

A collection of the specialized tools used to construct Japan’s beautiful architecture.

Running through lush forests and across the Tadami River, this train line offers breathtaking views of rural Japan.

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

Curious onlookers have suspected this strange structure is a secret government base.

The last remaining pre-dreadnought battleship in the world has been a museum for nearly a century.

"Excuse me sir, your submarine is blocking my building."

Passengers are not allowed to set foot outside this station, but you can still enjoy spectacular views of the sea from the platform.

Founded in 1880, this humble brewery still practices a disappearing technique of sake-making.

Perhaps the world's cheapest vending machines.

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

These seven moai figures are the world's only sanctioned replicas of the Easter Island originals.

This tiny stone in a children's park is what remains of an ancient, once-worshipped object.

The largest archaeological site from the Yayoi period.

The statue's head is one of the few fragments of the original Urakami Cathedral to survive the atomic bomb.

Every spring, this walkway outside the Japan Mint turns into a cherry blossom tunnel.

Surreal giant face-pillars welcome visitors from across the globe to this hotel.

Once the main gateway to Tokyo, sneaking through this checkpoint was a capital offense in feudal times.

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

One of three official copies of Marcel Duchamp's enigmatic masterpiece is on display in an obscure Tokyo museum.

Near the mouth of the Yodo River, this museum offers visitors six floors of hands-on learning about Osaka's raw sewage.

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