Places marasta215 Wants to Go

This bridge is so steep it looks like a rollercoaster.

Make your own fake treats at this factory and workshop in the epicenter of Japan's food replica industry.

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

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

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

A giant robo-cockroach building devours Tokyo.

One of the world's largest tanks mimics the experience of watching rare whale sharks, giant rays, and deep sea creatures from the ocean floor.

An infamous house made famous by director Takashi Shimizu.

Founded over a thousand years ago, this shrine is said to be built on the site of a warlord's harem prison.

This Kyoto Starbucks takes coffee drinkers back in time.

This town near Nagasaki is flecked with fruit-flavored bus stops.

A calico cat named Tama was the wildly popular Super Station Master at this train stop in southeast Japan.

Children's literature inside, forest all around.

The Buddhist temples of Yamadera, built into a mountain side, feature a viewing deck with sweeping views.

Giant animal sculptures are created with the rice straw leftover from the fall harvest each year.

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

Giant sand sculptures of famous people and places are on display near the Tottori sand dunes.

These Japanese gardens are blankets of light for dark winter nights.

Thirty architectural gems from the 19th- and early 20th-century Tokyo were restored and relocated to this space.

The Hanshin Expressway goes right through its 5th, 6th, and 7th floors.

This retro underwater observation tower would make the perfect lair for a sea-loving villain.

This sawtooth mountain range still bears the strangely lovely marks of its history as a medieval quarry.

The tallest bronze seated statue of the Buddha in Japan.

An astounding annual light display honors the victims of one of Japan's most devastating earthquakes.