Places Taz Coronado Wants to Go

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

A dilapidated amusement park with a million-dollar view.

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

A mysterious set of tunnels carved in the hills of rural northern Kyushu.

Giant art made in Japanese rice fields.

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

This high-design church is made up of two dizzying spirals meant to evoke the weaving together of marriage.

Tokyo’s only Ainu restaurant serves Indigenous food from northern Japan.

A giant robo-cockroach building devours Tokyo.

Founded over a thousand years ago, this shrine is said to be built on the site of a warlord's harem prison.

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

The largest volcanic caldera in Japan holds an entire city in its maw.

Closed for decades, this strange symbol of Japan's Expo '70 has finally opened its psychedelic insides to the public.

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

This sawtooth mountain range still bears the strangely lovely marks of its history as a medieval quarry.

This retro underwater observation tower would make the perfect lair for a sea-loving villain.

A steaming, boiling hellscape sources Hokkaido's thermal baths.

Unusual hexagonal rocks formed by cooling lava named for their resemblance to traditional Japanese tatami mats.

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

Coast along one of Japan’s mountain railways for coveted views of magnificent hydrangeas.

The world’s first hotel to be run by robots.

The 43-mile route crosses through six islands with gorgeous views of the Seto Inland Sea.

Steaming blood-red hot spring from hell.

Twelve hundred stone carvings guard this off-the-beaten-path Buddhist temple.