Places Kan Cho Wants to Go

Visitors to this park are welcomed by an ancient Japanese megalithic tomb that dates back to the sixth century.

A hole-in-the-wall antiquities museum in one of Tokyo's most popular megamalls.

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

The only Edo-period ferry that is still in operation in Tokyo today.

A 14th-century European chapel sticks out of the facade of a Japanese hotel.

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

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

A Japanese shrine to dolls.

This whimsical garbage disposal facility receives around 12,000 accidental tourists each year.

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

One in a pair of subterranean caves created by an ancient eruption of Mount Fuji.

A Japanese train station built around a 700-year-old camphor tree.

Watch out for the two-story Godzilla made out of tires.

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

An eerie reminder to the horrors of World War II.

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.

Narrow passes cut out of mountains surround the medieval capital of Japan.

This brothel-turned-restaurant features plenty of surprises and elaborate, extravagant architecture.

One of the largest producers of MSG in the world welcomes visitors to its Kawasaki factory with an albino panda named Aji-Kun.

Take a few seconds to look at this abandoned, art-filled station as you pass by on the subway to Ueno.

This western-themed amusement park is host to a large number of decaying animatronic cowboys.

More tin toys than you can shake a clapping monkey at.

A small island with no monkeys but plenty of military ruins.

Japan's largest and oldest annual procession of floats, begun in 869.