Grab a stick, tie a cucumber to it and try to capture this mythical water-dwelling creature at Kappabuchi Pool in Tono, a city in Iwate prefecture.

The Kadokawa Cultural Museum, in Tokorozawa city north of Tokyo, fuses museums of art, anime and oddities with a huge, reader-friendly library.

Delicious ingredients provide a flavorful harmony in every bite that is elevated by the base of every taco: the corn tortilla.

Mesilla Kitchen near Gate 2 Street in Okinawa city does brisk business. The new restaurant with tasty Southwestern cuisine was packed with off-duty service members and American families.

The nine-hole course near George Brown Darwin Botanic Gardens bills itself as a golf oasis in the northern Australian port town of Darwin.

Four hundred acres of flora from all over the world await you at a botanical garden surrounded by the misty covered Koolau Mountains of Hawaii. It was built more than 40 years ago by the Army Corps of Engineers as part of a flood-control project in the city and has been a relaxing place to enjoy ever since.

Kanimatsuri restaurant keeps the festival season party going with all-you-can-eat crab in Tokyo’s vibrant Tsukiji Outer Market.

A former Wesleyan Church that survived the World War II bombing of Darwin provides a shady spot for a bite to eat at Eva’s Cafe beneath a lush green canopy in Australia’s Northern Territory. The cafe has a selection of sandwiches, baked goods, salads, fruit juices and more, with the option of eating inside or on one of two large patios.

Donkeys, llamas and capybaras are among the 140 animals at Izu Shaboten Zoo, less than a three-hour drive from U.S. bases near the Japanese capital.

Farm Basel serves fresh-picked vegetables and locally sourced dairy and beef in an agrarian complex surrounded by urban Tokyo. After your fresh, delicious meal you can check out the nearby Isonuma Milk and Beef Farm and Nakanishi Farm, a fruit and vegetable farm.