Kanto region · the offbeat side of Kanagawa.
3 discoveries
A joyful museum in Kawasaki devoted to the creator of Doraemon and friends — original manga art, a rooftop play world, and that famous blue robot cat waiting in the garden.
A grand, bustling temple on the edge of Tokyo — home to a five-story pagoda, clouds of fragrant incense, and a shopping street where shopkeepers chop herbal candy in rhythmic time.
A wooded hillside in Kawasaki where two dozen real thatched-roof farmhouses, a kabuki stage, and a watermill — rescued from across Japan and rebuilt board by board — form a village out of time.
