Not quite the menace it once was, this monster still has some chops.

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

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

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

Take a few seconds to look at this abandoned, art-filled station as you pass by on the subway to Ueno.

Tatar Russian in origin, the largest mosque in Japan is now an Ottoman-style Turkish culture center.

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

Shells collected from over a hundred different countries line the walls, floors and ceilings of this fantasy museum.