This park boasts a unusual collection of curious monuments from around the world, from Micronesia to Antarctica.

Starship-temple contains 400 tons of drinking water and offers free Japanese lessons.

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

Colloquially known as “piss alley,” this narrow street filled with tiny bars and barbecue stands looks like it was pulled straight out of “Blade Runner.”

Not quite the menace it once was, this monster still has some chops.

Once a black market electronics marketplace, now an otaku shopper's paradise.

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

Open-air museum with an elaborate sculpture garden, stretching for over 70,000 square-meters.

Coast along one of Japan’s mountain railways for coveted views of magnificent hydrangeas.

Legend has it that centuries ago, a ghost once frequented this candy shop to feed her still-living baby.

It is believed that this Buddhist temple stands right on the gateway to the underworld.

Crawl through the hole in the middle of this stone to break off a bad relationship or initiate a good one.

This compact temple is filled with garlands of colorful balls that represent restrained monkeys.

More than 300 years old, Kyoto's historic "teahouse" still operates as an invitation-only geisha club.

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

An ancient Greek physician is honored as a god at this hole-in-the-wall shrine.

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

A small shrine dedicated to a tanuki statue, tucked away in a Blade Runner-esque izakaya alley

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

An office building covered from head to toe in over eighty variety of plants

The literal midpoint of the city, as all distances are calculated from this point

This brothel-turned-restaurant features plenty of surprises and elaborate, extravagant architecture.

A Japanese fertility god in the shape of a large phallus.

Surreal giant face-pillars welcome visitors from across the globe to this hotel.