Places tagurit381 Wants to Go

What's believed to be the country's first shrine is, in Shintō mythology, the annual meeting place of the gods.

A museum in Hokkaido is housed in a former high school. On its grounds a marker shares the awakening of a man who longs to be reunited with his soulmate in the fictional world of Kcymaerxthaere.

A bovine sumo match in which both bulls live to fight another day.

This traditional Japanese-style house doubles as one of James Turrell's colorful works of art.

The cemetery houses the remains of Jun’ichirō Tanizaki, one of Japan's most famous novelists.

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

The statue's head is one of the few fragments of the original Urakami Cathedral to survive the atomic bomb.

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

The world's largest radiation field is probably our best bet for irradiated vegetable superheroes.

This enormous "shamoji" means more to the people of Miyajima than just a way getting rice onto a plate.

Stone slabs along the coast warn of Japan's tsunami-ravaged past, often marking the highest point of a wave's reach.

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

These seven moai figures are the world's only sanctioned replicas of the Easter Island originals.

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

One of the bloodiest and most important battles in Japanese history is recreated with kitschy concrete statues.

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

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

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

Constructed thousands of years ago, these stone circles offer incredible insight into the lives of the people who built them.

A collection of more than 1,000 teddies from nearly any profession.

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

When this massive wooden temple ran out of rope, they made one out of devotees' hair.

A dilapidated amusement park with a million-dollar view.

Turn around and stick your head between your legs for the best view of this tree-covered sandbar.