Kanto region · the offbeat side of Tokyo.
3 discoveries
A green volcanic island 360 km out in the Pacific, with a smaller volcano nested inside its crater and a village of about 170 people — one of Japan's most remote and surreal inhabited places.
A tiny, free, two-floor museum dedicated entirely to parasites — home to a preserved 8.8-metre tapeworm and a gift shop selling parasite keychains. Tokyo's most gleefully strange date spot.
A neighborhood firefly festival in western Tokyo where Genji fireflies glow around tiny Hotaru Park — a surprisingly local summer-night detour from the city.
