Inspired by the famous sculptures on Easter Island, this head serves as a popular meeting spot by Shibuya Station.

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

Sidle into a side alley for a taste of sumo wrestlers' traditional hot-pot soup, in a tiny restaurant founded by a former competitor.

Weighing nearly 7 tons, this massive sculpture was carved out of 500-year-old wood and decorated with thousands of jewels.

This adorable birdlike police box is designed based on a play on words.

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

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

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

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

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

A museum dedicated to the history of Tokyo's often-overlooked working-class district.

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

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

Starship-temple contains 400 tons of drinking water and offers free Japanese lessons.

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.”

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.

Cabaret where the show girls are all androids, and the patrons couldn't be more pleased.

A taste of the macabre Tokyo's ritzy shopping district.

A nostalgic restaurant evokes life in Taiwan from the 1940s to the 1970s.

One man's hand-sculpted collection of colorful masks representing a host of gruesome spirits.

If you've ever wanted to learn about the history of Asian fish balls, this Taiwanese museum has you covered.

A three-table eatery sits inside the home-kitchen of a seafood virtuoso in Bangkok's Chinatown.

An on-site urban farm and fish pond supply some of the produce for this upscale restaurant.