Places pingophone Wants to Go

An unexpected curiosity cabinet hidden within a department store in the Japan Post tower.

Museum showcases Japanese sexuality and some amazing ocean views.

Steaming blood-red hot spring from hell.

Every autumn, this hillside is ablaze with red summer cypress.

This exacting restaurant will charge a fine for every grain of rice you've left behind.

This abandoned railroad got a new life as a scenic promenade cutting through the city of Otaru.

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

Inaccessible by foot, Japan's most secluded train station sits in the middle of nowhere.

A small Japanese village claims to be the final resting place of the son of God (and God's other son's ear).

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

Officially the lowest mountain in Japan.

This snack factory boasts several tributes to its popular line of rice crackers, including a quasi-shrine.

Believed to hold the remains of Japan's most infamous fox spirit, this stone is said to kill those who dare approach.

Running through lush forests and across the Tadami River, this train line offers breathtaking views of rural Japan.

This little known mountain has claimed four times as many lives as Everest.

Would you spend the night in Japan's deepest train station?

The world's largest radiation field is probably our best bet for irradiated vegetable superheroes.

An old-fashioned school with interesting grounds and deep history, including the original Mito Castle gate.

This incredible mountainside temple is home to intriguing statues of demon-like creatures.

It is said that coins washed in the waters here will miraculously multiply.

You can still find treasures on the pebbly beaches of one of the world's oldest jade-producing areas.

A museum of space exploration in the UFO capital of Japan.

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

This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.