If you forgot something to read during your trip to Tokyo, this hostel has you covered.

Rows of stone statues are dressed up to mourn children that are lost before birth.

Burial mound for the ears and noses of thousands of mutilated Korean soldiers.

For hundreds of years, participants in this Japanese festival have been making babies cry to ward off demons.

It's bad manners to eat and drink on the subways of Tokyo, unless the train is this bar. 

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

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

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

Crawl through the hole in the middle of this stone to break off a bad relationship or initiate a good one.

An unexpected curiosity cabinet hidden within a department store in the Japan Post tower.

A shrine contains nearly 200 statues of the Buddhist deity Jizo, dressed in bibs by parents who have lost a child.

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

A train ride to the middle of nowhere gives its passengers some of the most iconic views of Japan's seasons.

Meet the world's longest tapeworm in a collection that really gets under your skin.

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

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

The self-mummified monks of Japan.

A restaurant modeled after feudal Japan, where the waitstaff are trained as ninjas.

A beautiful bamboo trail tucked in this famous Japanese Shrine.

The quintessential Japanese rock garden has existed for more than 500 years.

1,001 carved statues of the Buddhist God of Mercy, each with a unique face.

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

This spa theme park lets its guests take a dip in pools of coffee, wine, or ramen broth.

Every color in the rainbow awaits.