Places Ranian02 Wants to Go

Each year this Japanese temple overflows with scowling, bearded good luck talismans.

The ruin of a Japanese love hotel almost completely overgrown with brambles.

As the aging humans of this Japanese village die off one local artisan is replacing them with eerie homonculi.

The Hanshin Expressway goes right through its 5th, 6th, and 7th floors.

White beach sands made of the remains of tiny, star shaped creatures.

The ruins of Japan’s premier water brothel.

Largest graveyard in all of Japan surrounds a famous mausoleum.

Historical Japanese-Dutch relations are honored with haunted rides and flower fields in this replica town.

This ruined Japanese stripclub sits half burnt to the ground.

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

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

This ancient temple is set up to take you on a pilgrimage of self.

One of the first hotel rooms in a pod.

Drinkslinger is an unlikely vocation for a Buddhist monk, but at this Tokyo bar the enlightenment is served in a martini glass.

Museum showcases Japanese sexuality and some amazing ocean views.

A massive cave complex boasts some of the clearest water (and most charming bats) in the world.

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

Reportedly 1,400 years old, this may be the first of the Fiji Mermaids.

The world's largest drain sits below the city of Kasukabe, Japan.

Steaming blood-red hot spring from hell.

One of Japan's most famous sights, the bridge was originally built in 1673.

Enormous underground chamber built to detect 'ghost particles' of the universe.

An ordinary pond with fish from out of this world.

Japanese company creates clone dolls that reside in the "uncanny valley."