• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aogashima

  • Amazing aerial view

• Enoshima

  • Setting for Tsuritama and Taritari
• A long bridge to the end of the world (search danbooru for that piece of K-On art)

  • http://zeark969.blog38.fc2.com/blog-entry-1988.html

  • Tsunoshima apparently

  • Way out on the south-western tip of Honshu, you'd do it on the way to Tanegashima
• Haikyo

  • http://www.kirainet.com/english/vault-of-an-investment-bank-that-went-bankrupt-in-1997/

  • This guy does a lot of them too: http://abandonedkansai.wordpress.com/special-nara-dreamland/

  • Any and all of these ruins: http://www.michaeljohngrist.com/ruins-gallery/

• Visit Shimane, the setting for the film Railways

• http://www.japan-talk.com/jt/new/101-things-to-do-in-tokyo

• An 18 hour ferry trip between Sapporo and Tokyo comes not recommended

• Shinjuku Gyoen, the setting for Shinkai's new thing, Kotonoha no Niwa

• Go see Murakami's galleries in Nakano: Takashi_Murakami

• Check out the Toden Arakawa streetcar line

• Icecream in Ikebukuro: "If you ever go to Japan, you should check out Ice Cream City in Namja Town in Sunshine 60, Ikebukuro. 100+ flavours. Some that I tried were salad, onsen, sakura, octopus, eel, persimmon, ox tongue. They also has stuff like shark, viper, 12 types of tofu etc etc"

Bars and Restaurants

• Gyoza in Sendai: http://tabelog.com/miyagi/A0401/A040101/4002355/dtlrvwlst/3607143/

• Go visit Dear Stage sometime, probably with Blitz in tow as well

• That New Type bar in the same building as Cos-Cha and Little BSD

• Visit a butler cafe
• Sakanaya (さかなや), a sake place in Ikebukuro. Billboard has the name on in hiragana

  • Nishi-Ikebukuro 1-35-8, http://goo.gl/maps/1oDz

  • Alex: "it is my absolute favourite place but their english is about as good as that of a kitten. The boss man knows my name so if you say Mr. Sayle (or Mr. Alex for that matter) sent you, you may get away with murder."

  • This book has a glowing review

• HUB in Shinjuku, a chain, the Japanese version of an Irish pub

  • http://goo.gl/maps/PKcn

  • Alex: "the ones in Shinjyuku tend to speak english. They'll seat you like a japanese place and have bar maids which are friendly"

  • Here's one, nominally the JR Shinjuku Minamiguchi branch: http://www.pub-hub.com/shop/minamiguchi/

• Heaven's Door Bar in Shimokitazawa, run by a British expat, location here, closes at 26:00 every day

• Craftheads in Shibuya, looks like a beer and bourbon bar, closed on Mondays