Akihabara Electric Town
Sotokanda, Sotokanda, Chiyoda, Japan
The world capital of anime and manga is named after a fire god.
Gotokuji Temple (Cat Temple)
24-7 Gotokuji 2-Chōme, Gotokuji, Setagaya, 154-0021, Japan
You know those beckoning cat figurines you see in the window of every Asian restaurant and shop? The ones with one paw raised, supposedly waving in good fortune? This is where they were born.
Inokashira Park Benzaiten Shrine
1 Inokashira 4-Chōme, Inokashira, Mitaka, 181-0001, Japan
There is a curse on this lake.
Kabukicho and the Godzilla Head
Kabukicho 1-Chōme, Kabukicho, Shinjuku, Japan
Look up at the Shinjuku Toho Building and you will see a life-size Godzilla head peering over the eighth floor.
Kanda Myojin Shrine
16-2 Sotokanda 2-Chōme, Sotokanda, Chiyoda, 101-0021, Japan
A thirteen-hundred-year-old Shinto shrine that sells microchip-shaped charms to protect your computer from viruses.
Sugamo Jizo-dori (Grannies' Harajuku)
35-2 Sugamo 3-Chōme, Sugamo, Toshima, 170-0002, Japan
Welcome to Harajuku for grandmothers.
Takeshita Street
Jingumae 1-Chōme, Jingumae, Shibuya, Japan
You are standing at the entrance of a three hundred and fifty metre pedestrian street that basically invented an entire global aesthetic movement.
Tsukiji Honganji Temple
3-15-1 Tsukiji, Chuo-ku, Tokyo
You are looking at a Buddhist temple that has absolutely no business looking like this.
Yanaka Ginza Shopping Street
3-chome-13 Yanaka, Taito-ku, Tokyo 110-0001
You are about to walk down one of Tokyo's only shopping streets that genuinely looks and feels like prewar Japan.
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