Places leifericpeterson Wants to Go

This folk art compound was built by a fortune teller on the advice of three people from the future.

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

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

A shrine contains nearly 200 statues of the Buddhist deity Jizo, dressed in bibs by parents who have lost a child.

Burial mound for the ears and noses of thousands of mutilated Korean soldiers.

A beautiful bamboo trail tucked in this famous Japanese shrine.

The sound of swaying stalks in this stunning grove has been named a governmentally recognized sound.

This active volcano's siren song to suicide jumpers forced authorities to build a fence.

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

A giant robo-cockroach building devours Tokyo.

We heard you like volcanoes so we put a volcano in your volcano so you can die for sure...

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

The demolished ruins of a poorly located Japanese Love Hotel.

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

A Buddhist temple to honor insects that died for science.

A Japanese concept restaurant that feels like a party thrown by the monsters in your closet.

Every color in the rainbow awaits.

Shrine to Japanese water-goblins, complete with their preserved body parts.

The freshest fish here are the ones you catch yourself.

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

Underground farm located in a former bank vault deep within the bowels of Tokyo's business district.

Tokyo’s only Vaudeville-cuckoo clock–steampunk-Victorian curio cabinet time piece.

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

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