Places Ryshili Wants to Go

The Yonaguni Monument, a natural formation or the Japanese Atlantis?

Ruins and statues dot the landscape of this tiny island rich with royal history.

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

A Japanese train station built around a 700-year-old camphor tree.

This historic hydroelectric power plant in Japan has been preserved and is open to the public.

This ancient shrine has been rebuilt every 20 years since the eighth century.

A charming, homemade vending machine dispenses burgers and sandwiches at this hole-in-the-wall bakery.

Existing for more than four centuries, the last of Hakone’s historic teahouses serves a sweet, mold-based rice drink.

More tin toys than you can shake a clapping monkey at.

A small island with no monkeys but plenty of military ruins.

Sulphuric gases inhabit a beautiful Japanese island.

Modern Japanese museum is buried by snow annually.

A bibliophile's heaven that contains hundreds of bookstores, offering over a third of secondhand books for sale in Tokyo.

One of the largest producers of MSG in the world welcomes visitors to its Kawasaki factory with an albino panda named Aji-Kun.

Roots and stumps that lay inundated for two millennia are on display in Japan's city of three mysteries.

After being lost for decades, this striking mural depicting the atomic bomb covers the wall of a busy Tokyo metro station.

Nestled in an unassuming residential area, this "forbidden forest" is rumored to spirit away those who dare enter it.

This adorable birdlike police box is designed based on a play on words.

A moss-covered statue of a Japanese Buddhist deity stands at a quiet temple in downtown Osaka.

An eerie maze of industrial factories looks like something out of a dystopian sci-fi.

A dilapidated amusement park with a million-dollar view.

The largest collection of model trains in the world is actually run using full-size locomotive technology.

The giant figure on the back of this turtle-shaped temple actually hides a memorial pendulum.

A statue erected on an infamous cliff where young boys would hold dangerous "pee offs" to prove their mettle.