Places kathykate Wants to Go

South Korea's only sex-themed park.

A raised Japanese building has preserved 8th-century artifacts for more than a millennium, earning this log cabin a reputation as the "world's oldest museum."

One of only a handful of seaside temples in Korea, this sacred space is home to a legendary healing Buddha statue and a traffic safety prayer pagoda.

A 70-foot-deep ice cave formed by lava from Mt. Fuji on the edge of Japan's "Suicide Forest." 

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

This Buddhist temple is home to the graves of the Japanese national legends, the 47 Ronin.

A 17th-century Shinto shrine that is home to statues of Mickey Mouse and Pikachu.

This gnome sculpture and his wonderous hat forces train passengers to do a double-take.

Discover the past, present, and future of packaging in this unique Japanese museum.

The origin of this bizarre, ghostly idol is a local mystery, even to the temple it calls home.

A glimpse into life in 1830s Tokyo, back during the heyday of the Tokugawa shogunate.

This museum showcases the art of ancient sword-making.

This museum is dedicated to the cultural history of tobacco and salt, once monopolized in Japan.

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

A precursor to Taro Okamoto’s iconic Tower of the Sun.

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

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

This Japanese Manneken Pis gets new outfits for every occasion.

Starship-temple contains 400 tons of drinking water and offers free Japanese lessons.

A restaurant modeled after feudal Japan, where the waitstaff are trained as ninjas.

Sidle into a side alley for a taste of sumo wrestlers' traditional hot-pot soup, in a tiny restaurant founded by a former competitor.

Cabaret where the show girls are all androids, and the patrons couldn't be more pleased.

Dedicated to the armor and weapons used by the legendary Japanese warriors.

Walls of VHS tapes adorn this Golden Gai B horror movie themed bar.