This Kyoto Starbucks takes coffee drinkers back in time.

The quintessential Japanese rock garden has existed for more than 500 years.

This 14th-century temple is also known as the "Temple of the Golden Pavilion" for its gorgeous gilded reliquary hall.

The infamous 'Incident at Honnō-ji' brought an end to Oda Nobunaga’s attempt to unify a warring Japan.

A 1000-year-old shrine in Kyoto with a poorly planned sacred arch.

This 700-year-old street food market features baby octopus and soy donuts.

View Japan's most historic city from a cyberpunk walkway suspended 150 feet above the ground.

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

Luminaries from Albert Einstein to John Lennon once had a cup of coffee at Tokyo's oldest café.

This retro café is a remnant of Japan’s post-war Argentine tango craze.

A bibliophile's heaven that contains hundreds of bookstores, offering over a third of secondhand books for sale in Tokyo.

Tragic reminders of the 1945 firebombing campaign over Tokyo still haunt this bridge.

Tokyo’s “Kitchen Town” hosts a number of shops selling intricate food replicas.

Although damaged beyond recognition, this stone god is still said to bring good luck to those who tap on him with a pebble.

In Asakusa, Tokyo's very own Walk of Fame.

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

An enormous pair of straw sandals woven in the traditional way—to keep demons at bay.

This enormous monument is one of the most iconic structures in Tokyo, rudely nicknamed "The Golden Turd."

A miniature shrine in the busy corner of Tokyo's historic Broadway, honoring a sextet of unusual entertainment gods.

This lesser-visited gallery in a corner of the Tokyo National Museum complex is an architectural beauty dedicated to the ancient treasures of Hōryū-ji.

No one knows why this family’s graves stayed on the national museum's premises after all other tombstones were relocated.

Check the time in 145 countries at once with this East German relic.

A student art project turned into a neighborhood fixture in Toronto.

A soaring cathedral in a small prairie town with an interesting painting inside.