Places Wishmeril Wants to Go

An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.

A giant robo-cockroach building devours Tokyo.

A Buddhist temple to honor insects that died for science.

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

This sprawling scenic burial ground is the final resting place of Japan's last shogun.

One of three official copies of Marcel Duchamp's enigmatic masterpiece is on display in an obscure Tokyo museum.

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

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

A cool dive bar, off the beaten track.

Weighing nearly seven tons, this massive sculpture was carved out of 500-year-old wood and decorated with thousands of jewels.

This battleship of a building was designed by a famed "mad architect."

The site of Japan’s first archaeological excavation is also the birthplace of fingerprint forensics.

One of the few surviving World War II-era air-raid shelters in Tokyo.

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

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

The only Edo-period ferry that is still in operation in Tokyo today.

When this clock strikes a certain time, puppets showcase a story of life in Edo Japan.