Places Perseus Rebelo Wants to Go

A rare festival blending religion, blacksmiths, vagina dentata, sex workers, and the straight-up facts of life.

A steaming, boiling hellscape sources Hokkaido's thermal baths.

Abandoned Japanese ghost town gives a glimpse into what our own metropolises may leave behind.

A disconnected rotary phone for "calling" lost loved ones offered a unique way of dealing with grief in disaster-stricken Japan.

A Japanese corporation has turned this small island town into living modern art gallery.

This isolated Japanese mountain village untouched by time showcases unique and stunning traditional architecture.

This mesmerizingly colorful pond looks like a scene straight out of a fairytale.

This historical theme park celebrates all things noodle.

Experience park where visitors are told to expect the unexpected.

The only Edo-period ferry that is still in operation in Tokyo today.

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

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

Bioluminescent firefly squid light up this Japanese fishing port.

Twelve hundred stone carvings guard this off-the-beaten-path Buddhist temple.

Once the most densely populated place in the world, this island is now a ghost town.

This neighborhood thoroughfare is haunted by dozens of homemade monsters.

The magical, mossy forest that inspired 'Princess Mononoke.'

An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.

Sample specialties from Xinjiang at this Shinjuku neighborhood gem.

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

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

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

This Buddhist temple is home to the graves of the Japanese national legends, the 47 Ronin.

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