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410 places across Japan and South Korea
Suga Shrine Steps
The staircase from the last scene, on an ordinary street.
Shibuya Scramble Crossing
Three thousand people crossing at once, every two minutes.
Shimokitazawa
Vintage shops and tiny live houses, no cars.
Café de l'Ambre
A coffee-only counter that has been aging beans since 1948.
Kanda Myojin Shrine
A 1,300-year-old shrine that blesses laptops.
Nakano Broadway
Four floors of collectors selling to collectors.
Yanaka Ginza
A single shopping street the war and the developers both missed.
teamLab Planets TOKYO
Walk barefoot through knee-deep water and projected light.
Ghibli Museum, Mitaka
Miyazaki designed it so you would get lost in it.
Hikawa Shrine, Motoazabu
The shrine behind Sailor Moon, on a hill in Azabu.
Shinjuku Golden Gai
Two hundred bars, most seating six people.
Nezu Shrine
A miniature torii tunnel without the Kyoto queue.
Kissa You
The omurice that collapses when you cut it.
Daikanyama T-Site
A bookshop worth crossing the city for, open until midnight.
Fushimi Inari Taisha
Ten thousand gates up the side of a mountain.
Philosopher's Path
Two kilometres of canal, cherry trees and small temples.
Kiyomizu-dera
A wooden stage on the hillside, built without nails.
Nishiki Market
Kyoto's kitchen, four hundred metres long and one shop deep.
% Arabica Kyoto Arashiyama
A latte on the river bank at the foot of the mountains.
Kurama to Kibune
A two-hour mountain crossing between two villages.
Gion Shirakawa
The quiet half of Gion, along a willow-lined canal.
Hōnen-in
A thatched gate, two sand mounds, and almost nobody.
Kyoto International Manga Museum
A converted school with 300,000 volumes you may read on the grass.
Dotonbori
The canal with the running man and the mechanical crab.
Kuromon Ichiba Market
Six hundred metres of grilled scallops and knife shops.
Shinsekai & Tsūtenkaku
A 1912 vision of the future, preserved by neglect.
Nakazakichō
Pre-war houses turned into one-room cafés, ten minutes from Umeda.
Osaka Castle
A reconstructed keep on genuinely enormous stone walls.
Amerikamura
Osaka's streetwear quarter, loud and secondhand.
Hōzenji Yokochō
A stone alley of old kitchens, a block from the neon.
Bukchon Hanok Village
Six hundred traditional houses on a hill between two palaces.
Café Onion Seongsu
A bakery inside a factory nobody bothered to redecorate.
Seongsu-dong
Shoe factories turned into flagship stores and pop-ups.
Ihwa Mural Village
A hillside village painted to keep it from being demolished.
N Seoul Tower
The whole city, from a hill in the middle of it.
Gwangjang Market
Sit on a plastic stool and eat mung bean pancakes.
Noksapyeong & Itaewon
The hill of small bars behind Itaewon.
Common Ground
Two hundred shipping containers stacked into a mall.
Naksan Park & City Wall
Walk the old fortress wall above the rooftops.
Changdeokgung Secret Garden
A royal garden you can only enter with a guide.
Ikseon-dong
A 1920s hanok block of alleys barely wide enough for two.
Dongdaemun Design Plaza
Zaha Hadid's silver landscape in the middle of Dongdaemun.
Mangwon Market
The market Seoul actually shops at.
Yeonnam-dong
A disused railway turned into a long thin park, with cafés either side.
Starfield Library, COEX
Thirteen-metre bookshelves in the middle of a shopping mall.
Inwangsan & Seonbawi
A shamanic rock shrine on a granite mountain above the city.
Gyeongbokgung Palace
The main royal palace, with Bugaksan directly behind it.
Euljiro 3-ga
Unmarked bars above lighting shops and print workshops.