Places NixOfNowhere Wants to Go

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

This Kyoto Starbucks takes coffee drinkers back in time.

This subterranean spot might be the epitome of Japan's baroque, retro coffee houses.

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

Legend holds eating just one of these black eggs can add seven years to one's life.

The only thing sweeter than the potatoes is the canine proprietor of this roadside stall.

The bartenders at this crime-fighting theme cafe are actual private detectives by day.

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

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

This historical theme park celebrates all things noodle.

This spa theme park lets its guests take a dip in pools of coffee, wine, or ramen broth.

A beautiful, dense forest in the shadow of Mount Fuji, with a tragic reputation.

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

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

Hot springs monkey spa in the middle of Hell's Valley.

On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.

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

An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.

A magical place that lets you play in and explore the world of Studio Ghibli.

Sleep snuggled in a sphere suspended atop the forest canopy of Vancouver Island.

An old world fairytale-land with over 350 fairy folk figurines hidden amongst 800 year old cedars.

A botanically themed auditorium blooms within the world’s last operating double-decker theater.

Stalin's prisoner-built rail line sits in ruin, never having a single car ride its tracks.

Dinosaur eggs were first discovered at these fiery red cliffs.