Places Ryshili Wants to Go

This water goblin statue represents a 19th-century urban legend about a haunted canal that became a Japanese idiom.

This quirky little private museum is home to more than a thousand stones, carved by nature, that resemble human faces.

Mythical beasts symbolizing the city of Tokyo guard a historic bridge.

Near the mouth of the Yodo River, this museum offers visitors six floors of hands-on learning about Osaka's raw sewage.

Fans line up at the crack of dawn for a slurpy bowl of deliciousness at this noodle counter inside a factory.

This little town supplies Japan with most of its calligraphy brushes, still made by hand from animal fur.

A statue of a mischievous raccoon towers over this city park.

Though technically an illegal structure, this eclectic DIY apartment complex is beloved by its residents.

Watch out for the two-story Godzilla made out of tires.

Narrow passes cut out of mountains surround the medieval capital of Japan.

High in the mountains of Kochi Prefecture, a magnificent library designed by a world-famous architect.

Legend says the goddess this shrine honors curses any couples that pass by.

An ingenious solution to a tricky engineering problem, this spiraling bridge takes drivers for a dizzying spin.

A 14th-century European chapel sticks out of the facade of a Japanese hotel.

These Japanese ruins have been brought back to life with elaborately recreated buildings.

This Japanese Manneken Pis gets new outfits for every occasion.

A 17th-century Shinto shrine that is home to statues of Mickey Mouse and Pikachu.

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

These wondrously illuminated caverns extend under the mountains of the Fukushima Prefecture.

"Singing sands" and the world's largest hourglass reside near Japan's Kotogahama beach.

The floats housed in this hall are more than 100 years old, and are brought out for an annual celebration.

A hub of information on tropical diseases and their treatments.

Hidden by the roadside in the Iya Valley, this gem brings together folk monsters and the region's unique geography.

Approximately 300 million years ago, a massive coral reef existed in what is now the largest limestone cave in Japan.