Places spookynin Wants to Go

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

If you forgot something to read during your trip to Tokyo, this hostel has you covered.

This Japanese Manneken Pis gets new outfits for every occasion.

Kawaii meets poisonous at this unique art gallery.

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

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

Sidle into a side alley for a taste of sumo wrestlers' traditional hot-pot soup, in a tiny restaurant founded by a former competitor.

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

The tallest city hall in the world offers an excellent bento box.

This tiny museum hidden above a restaurant houses thousands of modern and traditional kites.

It's bad manners to eat and drink on the subways of Tokyo, unless the train is this bar. 

A flight of this "ghost staircase" has 40 steps on the way up, but only 39 steps on the way down.

Discover the past, present, and future of packaging in this unique Japanese museum.

The small candy-colored ride is the last rooftop Ferris wheel in Tokyo.

This ordinary set of steps is a must-see destination for fans of a certain romantic anime.

A giant robo-cockroach building devours Tokyo.

This “peasant café” in the middle of Tokyo re-creates the atmosphere of the Japanese countryside.

A museum dedicated to the history of Tokyo's often-overlooked working-class district.

Inside the columbarium, thousands of colorful, high-tech Buddhas guard the ashes of the dead.

An unexpected curiosity cabinet hidden within a department store in the Japan Post tower.

An oddly touching memorial to a little-remembered nuclear tragedy.

A King Kong-like gorilla hangs from the top of this commercial building in Tokyo.

People from around the world visit the shrine of Japan’s legendarily loyal dog.

This little replica of Lady Liberty provides a bit of NYC in a Japanese city.