Places Pirho Tau Wants to Go

This Japanese national treasure was originally built in 593.

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

The “bridge of return” is haunted by a myriad of legends, from ghosts to demons to nuptial superstitions.

The groundbreaking Japanese shrine maiden who invented the art of kabuki.

A strip of traditional hand towel serves as an admission ticket at this modern tenugui museum.

Sip “liquid cuisine” made with meat, vegetables, and insects.

Model trains whizz around an extensive room-sized diorama of Kyoto City.

A tiny collection of traditional Japanese woodblock prints, open only when the owner feels like it.

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

This 400-year-old sweet shop serves a delicacy some have described as "edible incense."

This kitsch-forward diner is dedicated to an almost-forgotten “one-cent” prototype of okonomiyaki.

An LED art installation composed of 600 poles wrapped in kimono fabric.

These turtle-shaped concrete stepping stones provide a unique river crossing in central Kyoto.

A small shrine dedicated to a god of lightning and electronics.

This Kyoto Starbucks takes coffee drinkers back in time.

A shrine contains nearly 200 statues of the Buddhist deity Jizo, dressed in bibs by parents who have lost a child.

Established over a thousand years ago, this family-run teahouse continues to serve skewers of sweet rice cake to this day.

The cutest shrine in Kyoto is dedicated to bunnies.

One of Kyoto's oldest food establishments has supplied soba noodles to temple priests and the Imperial Palace.

With over 12,000 different species of plants, this botanical garden is Japan's oldest and most diverse.

A beautiful bamboo trail tucked in this famous Japanese shrine.

1,001 carved statues of the Buddhist God of Mercy, each with a unique face.

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

This neighborhood thoroughfare is haunted by dozens of homemade monsters.