Serving you alcohol with a side of insanity. Also, costumes!

A taste of the macabre Tokyo's ritzy shopping district.

The original "capsule building" is a masterpiece of Metabolist architecture.

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

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

This ordinary set of steps is a must-see destination for fans of a certain romantic anime.

Here lies Hattori Hanzō, a samurai who is remembered as a legendary ninja in today’s popular culture.

A charming, homemade vending machine dispenses burgers and sandwiches at this hole-in-the-wall bakery.

The only Kurdish restaurant in Japan invites you to learn and feast.

The legendary birthplace of the Japanese maneki-neko is dotted with hundreds of lucky beckoning cats.

This “peasant café” in the middle of Tokyo re-creates the atmosphere of the Japanese countryside.

Meet the world's longest tapeworm in a collection that really gets under your skin.

A museum housed in a stunning Rockefeller-funded medical institute building from the 1930s.

A bar dedicated to he Jojo manga franchise, with over 50 original cocktails.

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

Tokyo’s only Ainu restaurant serves Indigenous food from northern Japan.

Sample specialties from Xinjiang at this Shinjuku neighborhood gem.

Drinkslinger is an unlikely vocation for a Buddhist monk, but at this Tokyo bar the enlightenment is served in a martini glass.

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

The "largest bathroom stall in the world" offers a unique pit-stop experience.

This theme park is not in Tokyo, not especially German, and certainly not a village.

Unlikely place for krautrock legends to hang out.

An ordinary pond with fish from out of this world.

People from around the world visit the shrine of Japan’s legendarily loyal dog.