This garden located inside a bamboo forest once belonged to a famous Japanese actor.

This 400-year-old sweet shop serves a delicacy some have described as "edible incense."

This 14th-century temple is also known as the "Temple of the Golden Pavilion" for its gorgeous gilded reliquary hall.

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

One of Kyoto's oldest food establishments has supplied soba noodles to temple priests and the Imperial Palace.

This Kyoto Starbucks takes coffee drinkers back in time.

The sound of swaying stalks in this stunning grove has been named a governmentally recognized sound.

Surreal giant face-pillars welcome visitors from across the globe to this hotel.

Blowtorches, tuna, and a jolly, chain-smoking proprietor mark this beloved street-food stand.

A beautiful work of art designed to impress the Allied Forces.

This museum celebrates the history of Japanese advertising, from feudal business tricks to modern T.V. commercials.

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

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

This enormous monument is one of the most iconic structures in Tokyo, rudely nicknamed "The Golden Turd."

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

Dedicated to the armor and weapons used by the legendary Japanese warriors.

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

Thirty architectural gems from the 19th- and early 20th-century Tokyo were restored and relocated to this space.

A railway station takeout shop sells boxed meals in containers shaped like trains and snowmen that hold the country’s abundant regional delicacies.

Colloquially known as “piss alley,” this narrow street filled with tiny bars and barbecue stands looks like it was pulled straight out of “Blade Runner.”

San Francisco's oldest surviving monument and meeting place for 1906 survivors.

The remains of a ruined mansion memorialize the 1906 earthquake.

The tea room that pushed the boundaries of adorable straight into...we can't find the words.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.