Places Ybleh5 Wants to Go

Cherry blossom season comes early in this Japanese town where pink flowers line the streets and riverbanks.

Japan's largest area of "pink moss" turns the hillside bright pink every spring.

Shells collected from over a hundred different countries line the walls, floors and ceilings of this fantasy museum.

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

A Japanese cat island also populated by the descendants of a band of banished samurai.

Reportedly 1,400 years old, this may be the first of the Fiji Mermaids.

Established over a thousand years ago, this family-run teahouse continues to serve skewers of sweet rice cake to this day.

Drinkslinger is an unlikely vocation for a Buddhist monk, but at this Tokyo bar the enlightenment is served in a martini glass.

Steaming blood-red hot spring from hell.

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

The self-mummified monks of Japan.

Stuck in a bygone era, the oldest subterranean shopping street in Japan hides beneath the popular Asakusa district of Tokyo.

Japanese island famous for poison gas and fluffy bunnies.

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

With over 12,000 different species of plants, this botanical garden is Japan's oldest and most diverse.

This subterranean spot might be the epitome of Japan's baroque, retro coffee houses.

Shrine to Japanese water-goblins, complete with their preserved body parts.

This historical theme park celebrates all things noodle.

Transport yourself to the 1980s era of video games at this themed restaurant and bar.

Every autumn, this hillside is ablaze with red summer cypress.

Bioluminescent firefly squid light up this Japanese fishing port.

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

Once a black market electronics marketplace, now an otaku shopper's paradise.

This Buddhist temple is home to the graves of the Japanese national legends, the 47 Ronin.