This airy five-floor library and museum houses thousands of books and rotating exhibits on Japanese monsters and anime.

Run a wash cycle while sipping a latte at this community-oriented café.

Peer into this window for an interesting glimpse into the public utilities that make this city run.

This monument celebrates this shopping district's past history as a feudal silver mint.

Access to this hidden site of a 14th-century mass suicide is prohibited, unless it is to pray for the dead.

Visitors to this museum will discover that kaleidoscopes are much more than toys.

A cursed torii gate still stands on the edge of Haneda Airport, decades after its shrine's relocation.

This infamous execution site inspired the beginning of Japan's modernization in the late 18th-century.

The "largest bathroom stall in the world" offers a unique pit-stop experience.

The first location of the eventual video game giant.

Tragic reminders of the 1945 firebombing campaign over Tokyo still haunt this bridge.

A few hidden stones are said to bring fortune and love.

An eerie reminder to the horrors of World War II.

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

A flight of this "ghost staircase" has 40 steps on the way up, but only 39 steps on the way down.

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

A calico cat named Tama was the wildly popular Super Station Master at this train stop in southeast Japan.

This ordinary set of steps is a must-see destination for fans of a certain romantic anime.

Once the most densely populated place in the world, this island is now a ghost town.

On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.

A magical place that lets you play in and explore the world of Studio Ghibli.

The buildings are among the few Frank Lloyd Wright structures still standing in Japan.

A beautiful, dense forest in the shadow of Mount Fuji, with a tragic reputation.

The bartenders at this crime-fighting theme cafe are actual private detectives by day.