Special Places | 30 Places Around the World to Experience Escape and Reset My Mind

#1 : Mojave Desert・Mojave National Preserve / California, USA
Wilderness in southeastern California, USA. Wander around the ghost town in the wilderness and experience the world of “nothing”.

​#2 : Amboy California, USA
Wilderness of the Mojave Desert in US. With the impressive cafe & motel sign in the background, I am healed by the silence of the deserted landscape.

#3 : Zzyzx Road / Soda Lake, California, USA
A strangely named road in the Mojave Desert, eastern California, USA. Experiencing the world of “nothing” in the mysterious scenery of Dry Lake.​ 

#4 : A straight road in the U.S., USA
Standing before a straight road cutting through the wilderness, I fix my eyes on the vanishing point in the distance, and my mind is filled with nothingness.

#5 : Marfa / Texas, USA
Marfa, Texas. Experience the warmth of the people in Texas at this sacred place for contemporary art pioneered by Donald Judd.

#6 : Ivanpah Lake / California USA
Dazzled by the glare of the dry lake along Interstate 15 on the border between California and Nevada, together with the light of a mysterious tower in the distance.

#7 : Kiva Koffeehouse, Utah, USA
Along the road in Utah, USA. Spending a luxurious reading time at the coffee house on the side of the valley, with a spectacular view outside the window.

#8 : Twentynine Palms, California, USA
A town with a mysterious name in southwestern California, USA. While wandering around the houses scattered in the wilderness, imagine the thoughts of people fleeing the city and arriving at this place.

#9 : Bagdad / without “h” (Bagdad, USA)
Baghdad. Walking through a place called “Bagdad” in USA, not in Iraq. Notice that it is not spelled “Baghdad”, but Bagdad without “h”.

#10 : Santorini Island / Greece
Island in the Aegean Sea. While looking at the white houses on the cliff and the boat floating in the azure sea in the background, feeling the illusion of being in heaven.

#11 : Oregon Country Fair, Oregon, USA
Oregon, USA. At a festival inherits the hippie culture, seeing an unrealistic scene and realize that I have changed my outlook on life.

#12 : Easter Island / Chile 
An isolated island in the Pacific Ocean. See the statue of Moai and imagine the “collapse of civilization” unfolded here.

#13 : Baker, California, USA
Baker, located in the Mojave Desert, southeastern California, USA. Feeling scorching land with the world’s tallest thermometer landmark.

#14 : Gallup (New Mexico, USA)
Gallup, New Mexico. Gate City on Native Reservation area. As walked along Route 66, admiring the store signs and buildings, I was moved emotinally by the sight of dust and smoke being whipped up by strong winds.

#15 : Arcata, California, USA
Arcata in Northern California, USA, different from stereotype California. Enjoying the gentle atmosphere in town inheriting hippie culture.

#16 : Las Vegas / Nevada USA
A world-famous casino city. Enjoying the extraordinary in Entertainment City.

#17 : Santa Fe / Canyon Road (Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA)
Marveling at the unique landscape of the adobe buildings, I headed down Canyon Road, entered a gallery, and exchanged greetings with the staff.

#18 : Machu Picchu / Peru
Machu Picchu in Peru. One of the most well-known World Heritage Sites. Overwhelmed with emotion as walking along the Inca Trail and arrive at the sky city.

#19 : Christiania / Copenhagen, Denmark
Copenhagen, Denmark. Explore communities that advocate anarchism, think about “self-management,” and goals of existing society.

#20 : Jerusalem Old City / Israel
Jerusalem Old City, Israel. Walking around the maze-like road in the 1km square castle wall, recall the history this place has followed, and realize I am feeling emotions I have never experienced before.

#21 : Cusco, Peru
Cusco, the former capital of the Inca Empire. Astonished by the special scenery of the city, walking along the cobblestone road, it becomes difficult to tell whether it is a pisco sour sickness or a sickness in this city.

#22 : Sunset Strip, California USA 
Sunset Strip, west side of Los Angeles. Seeing Billboard with clear blue sky background on the Sunset Blvd and visiting the sacred sites of Rock music, feeling the atmosphere of California.

​#23 : Dead Sea, Israel / Palestine
Floating on a lake with an unusually high salinity, seeing the gray-brown rocky mountains in the distance. When closed my eyes, the history of this land permeates my body.

​#24 : Siqueiros, Mexico City, Mexico
Mexican artist “David Alfaro Siqueiros” founded the Mexican Mural Movement. Picture of passion sways emotions leading to a different world.

#25 : Banksy Wall Painting, Bethlehem, Palestine
Palestine, Bethlehem. While traveling around Banksy’s mural paintings on the separation wall between Israel and Palestine, meeting with the first Japanese artist in Asia to paint. 

​#26 : Reykjavik, Iceland
Reykjavik, the island of the farthest ocean, the land of the midnight sun. As walking through the streets lined with colorful houses, noticing that no one is walking, and feeling unrealistic. 

#27 : San Sebastian / Spain 
Basque Country, Spain. Enjoy a tipsy feeling in the old town of a gastronomic city with a relaxing atmosphere, different from Barcelona and Madrid.

#28 : Kathmandu, Nepal
One of the three great sacred places of hippies. People are kind and forgiving. Is this due to the culture of the country Himalayas are located? Feeling the peaceful atmosphere in a foreign land.

#29 : Hight-Ashbury / San Francisco, USA
Haight-Ashbury, San Francisco. Wandering around the center of 60’s counterculture, searching for vestiges of hippie culture.

​#30 : Venice, Italy
One of the best tourist destinations in the world, the city of water. Walking down the maze-like alleys and travel back in time to the Middle Ages.