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25 Obscure & Amazing Things To Do In Tokyo
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Make a wish that you could draw as well as the other visitors at the anime & manga shrine
Where: Kanda Myoujin Shrine (Kanda)
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Get your warts disappeared by the Wart-Curing Jizo
Where: Nishi-arai Daishi Temple (Daishi-mae)
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Go check out what the best dressed nude statue in Tokyo is wearing this month
Every month for fifteen years, volunteers have been making new outfits for him! Never the same one twice.
Where: Yamanote Line platform (Hamamatsucho)
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Walk through the maze of the 10,000 crystal gods
Where: Fukagawa Fudo-san Temple (Monzen Nakacho)
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Get the weirdest beauty treatment ever
Where: Odeo Onsen Hot Spring Theme Park (Odaiba)
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Watch an artist make most beautiful lollipops in the world
Where: Ameshin shop (Asakusa)
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Ask Saint Bondage to get you out of a jam
Where: Nanzo-in Temple (Kanamachi)
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Swan around inside one of these 23 thatch-roofed farmhouses like it’s medieval Japan and pretend you own the place
Hard to believe, but these really are in Tokyo! Less than 45 minutes from Shinjuku Station
Where: Mihon Minka-en Park (Mukogaokayuen)
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Chug a cup of poisonous dried snake tea
YES THOSE ARE REAL SNEKS
Where: Koshinzuka Shopping Street (Sugamo)
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Feast your eyes on the actual receipt for Lord Kira’s head
…and burn some incense at the graves of the real 47 ronin
Where: Sengakuji Temple (Sengakuji)
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Scarf down a stack of extreme pancakes
You know you want some
Where: Hoshino Coffee (Shibuya)
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Crane your neck at the giant Gundam
And do it NOW because it’s going away in March <SOB!>
Where: Outside the DiverCity shopping mall (Odaiba)
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Quaff a cold one at the bar owned by a dog
Where: Bar Black Sheep (Shibuya)
Update: Sadly, Hana-chan the shiba retired, so the bar owned by a dog is no longer there ( ; _ ; )
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Pet the Honorable Duck Butt of Sugamo
Where: Koshinzuka Shopping Street (Sugamo)
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Be a Lolita for a day
Where: Maison de Julietta, Laforet department store (Harajuku)
Update: Sadly, Maison de Julietta has closed since this post was written ( ; _ ; )
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Make your own plastic food
Take a workshop or buy kits you can give as gifts/do at home
Where: Ganso Sample Shop (Kappabashi)
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Beg the thousands of maneki neko at the lucky cat temple to make this year your luckiest one yet
Where: Gotokuji Temple (Gotokuji)
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Whup your compadres at a Smile Fight
Prove once and for all that your grin is the mightiest in the land
Where: Sony Explorascience Museum (Odaiba)
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Get yourself in 45 different kinds of trouble at the Trick Art Museum
…and the pix to prove it
Where: Trick Art Museum (Odaiba)
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Ogle incredible views of Tokyo as you walk across the Rainbow Bridge
Where: Odaiba
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Visit a garden where dripping water makes music
Where: Yushima Tenjin Shrine (Yushima)
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Get yourself some lucky red underwear and experience The Power Of The Red Panty
Where: Koshinzuka Shopping Street (Sugamo)
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Get your wallet blessed at a fire ceremony
Where: Fukagawa Fudo-san Temple (Monzen-Nakacho)
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Drink a cocktail from a smoke-filled skull
Where: Codename Mixology (Akasaka-mitsuke)
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Take a walk in the most beautiful undiscovered garden in Tokyo
Where: Koshikawa Koraku-en Garden (Korakuen)
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Read a novel set in Tokyo
The #1 hostboy at Club Nova makes a handsome living, whispering sweet nothings in the ears of women who pay him a fortune for the privilege. But the party’s over when Tokyo Detective Kenji Nakamura is assigned to investigate the death of one of Hoshi’s customers…read more
Great list and great compilation of some of your best posts xoxox
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OK, how did I miss this when you first posted it? (><;;;;;;) Would prefer to blame it on a rift in space/time continuum, but what really happened is I absorbed all the kind & glowy feels from your extra-nice words while en route to Boston, then forgot to reply after United Airlines harvested their usual numbers of extra lives/brain cells. So I'm coming here late to say thank you, and WOO HOO so happy to be getting your blog notifications again – they're one of the few things I actually WANT to click on these days, so YAY╰(*´︶`*)╯
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