This massive complex is made up of hundreds of smaller temples that date back to the ninth century.

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

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

This 700-year-old street food market features baby octopus and soy donuts.

The original "capsule building" is a masterpiece of Metabolist architecture.

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

This abandoned, spaceship-like building is home to a museum so unpopular that it has been put on hiatus for over two decades.

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

This bizarre residential building is the masterpiece of Von Jour Caux, the “Gaudí of Japan.”

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

This tiny museum hidden above a restaurant houses thousands of modern and traditional kites.

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

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

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.

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.

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

The legendary birthplace of the Japanese maneki-neko is dotted with hundreds of lucky beckoning cats.

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.”

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

You can still find treasures on the pebbly beaches of one of the world's oldest jade-producing areas.

Experience park where visitors are told to expect the unexpected.