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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)
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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)
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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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