Places ktknoll Wants to Go

This bizarre residential building is the masterpiece of Von Jour Caux, the “Gaudí of Japan.”

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

Mythical beasts symbolizing the city of Tokyo guard a historic bridge.

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

This Japanese Manneken Pis gets new outfits for every occasion.

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

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

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

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

A giant robo-cockroach building devours Tokyo.

This tiny museum hidden above a restaurant houses thousands of modern and traditional kites.

Rows of stone statues are dressed up to mourn children that are lost before birth.

The tallest city hall in the world offers an excellent bento box.

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

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

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

An unexpected curiosity cabinet hidden within a department store in the Japan Post tower.

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

A museum dedicated to the history of Tokyo's often-overlooked working-class district.

Inside the columbarium, thousands of colorful, high-tech Buddhas guard the ashes of the dead.

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

A Buddhist temple to honor insects that died for science.

A railway station takeout shop sells boxed meals in containers shaped like trains and snowmen that hold the country’s abundant regional delicacies.

Transport yourself to the 1980s era of video games at this themed restaurant and bar.