Places kaptib91 Wants to Go

The decommissioned steam engine’s whistle can still be heard three times a day at one of Japan’s oldest train stations.

This quirky collection of furniture also happens to be a public art installation.

This abandoned, spaceship-like building is home to a museum so unpopular that it has been put on hiatus for over two decades.

Next door to Tokyo DisneySea is a giant sculpture created by Taro Okamoto symbolizing the dynamism of life.

This infamous execution site inspired the beginning of Japan's modernization in the late 18th-century.

This iconic sluice gate is a favorite haunt for joggers, fishing enthusiasts, and even ghost hunters.

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

This battleship of a building was designed by a famed "mad architect."

Steampunk, humanoid sculptures crawl on all fours in a Tokyo plaza.

This enormous monument is one of the most iconic structures in Tokyo, rudely nicknamed "The Golden Turd."

Designed by a computer, this intricate network of fluorescent green pipes has taken over a subway station.

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

A few hidden stones are said to bring fortune and love.

This museum showcases the art of ancient sword-making.

This Japanese Manneken Pis gets new outfits for every occasion.

This adorable birdlike police box is designed based on a play on words.

These unique toilets feature transparent glass covered in PDLC film.

The small candy-colored ride is the last rooftop Ferris wheel in Tokyo.

A giant robo-cockroach building devours Tokyo.

A flight of this "ghost staircase" has 40 steps on the way up, but only 39 steps on the way down.

For hundreds of years, participants in this Japanese festival have been making babies cry to ward off demons.

It's bad manners to eat and drink on the subways of Tokyo, unless the train is this bar. 

Stuck in a bygone era, the oldest subterranean shopping street in Japan hides beneath the popular Asakusa district of Tokyo.

An oddly touching memorial to a little-remembered nuclear tragedy.