If you have ever dreamed of living out the rest of your days in the cramped cabin of a small cruise ship—Tokyo’s Nakagin Capsule Tower is for you. The Nakagin Capsule Tower may be permanently landlocked, but each 12-foot wide apartment equipped with a woefully small bathroom and a single circular window will surely give…
The Meenakshi Amman Temple in Madurai, India looks as though it is straight out of the psychedelic 1960s. The Meenakshi Amman Temple features 14 towers adorned with colorful statues of many-armed deities, lounging cows, and fierce dragons. The colorful temple is dedicated to the Hindu goddess Meenakshi—otherwise known as Parvati—who is said to have married…
At some unknown point after the Korakukan Ryokan Hot Spring Inn opened in the mid-1800s, a tourist soaking in the inn’s natural hot springs decided to slip a Japanese macaque monkey who had wandered over from a nearby forest a little morsel of food. It didn’t take long for the macaque monkeys of the Jigokundani…
The routine of every student in the world can be boring. Otherwise, they wouldnβt look for someone to order paper online to cope with academic pressure. There is something able to blend that boredom of young people for sure. Itβs traveling. Moreover, taking a trip to some special places in China will bring you emotions…
In order to pass the time, veteran Huang Yung-Fu decided to beautify the dull, grey Taiwanese village that he called home. Huang Yung-Fu’s neighbors—also fellow veterans—were beginning to leave in droves. Huang Yung-Fu had settled in his neighborhood after fighting in the Second Sino-Chinese War and the Chinese Civil War. Several neighborhoods in Taiwan were…
The Gajumaru Treehouse Diner is a surreal sight. It is not often that you see a diner housed in a 20 foot tall tree synthetic Banyan tree in the middle of a bustling modern city. Of course such a fantastical eatery would appear in Japan. Japan is world famous for its whimsical culture that readily…
Biei, Japan is home to a stunning sapphire blue pond dotted with skeletal dead birch trees that looks as though it is the domain of an immortal fairy godmother who will happily grant you a series of wishes now that you have reached her enchanted domain. Shirogane’s Blue Pond was created in the wake of…
If you couldn’t get enough of the singing, dancing furry robots of Chuck E. Cheese when you were a kid—The Japanese district of Kabukicho has a grown-up Robot Restaurant that is sure to bring you endless delight. The Kabukicho Robot Restaurant—which is populated by artfully designed metal-and-wire ladies—features giant animatronic women with giant… well, you…