- Setting for Tsuritama and Taritari
- Featured in Clannad, it's got beautiful flower fields (and wind turbines)
- A long bridge to the end of the world (search danbooru for that piece of K-On art)
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/
An 18 hour ferry trip between Sapporo and Tokyo comes not recommended
Koyasan cemetery: http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e4901.html
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"
Takeda Castle in Asago, Hyougo Prefecture in the Kansai region
Nagoya science museum and planetarium: http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Lh1O4usmtwk/Vd89ixMbvCI/AAAAAAABGK8/yPjtIQlg3ew/nagoya-city-science-museum-8%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800
Setting for Love Live Aqours: https://www.google.com/maps/@35.0172933,138.8922265,3a,75y,333.22h,90t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sehGkVKF42h2hrJFDFmizcQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=ja
http://en.rocketnews24.com/2014/04/02/japans-7-most-beautiful-views-in-blue/
Visit a fox sanctuary: http://zao-fox-village.com/
- Find somewhere to try Zunda Saryo, a vegetable juice speciality from Sendai
- Ishigaki and Yaeyama islands, down in Okinawa. Kyo said they're like hidden treasures.
- Cape Tappi in northwest Aomori
Tour of the giant underground stormwater system in Tokyo/Saitama: https://gaikaku.jp/
- Traditional merchant homes, machiya, in Kyoto
Maneki Machiya (~$100/night) - cozy home, free bicycles to borrow, AND supporting the @japancatnetwork
- Kyoisuke (~$300-400/night)
- Kyoto Machiya Zeniyacho (~$500-$600/night)
Fancy dining on an old first-class train, the Aru Ressha: https://youtu.be/RAAAmhhWtoY
Hashi (84) gaming bar run by an ex-Nintendo employee, EN guests well supported, kinda secret: http://what.tokyo/84/84-english/
Amimegane, anime glasses! https://animegane.jp/
- Shibuya Sky is a rooftop bar that's a big glass box, meaning you get a spectacular view of the city at night time
- Shiretoko National Park in far northeastern Hokkaido. "One of the most remote regions in Japan, much of the peninsula is only accessible on foot or by boat"
The Nakagin Capsule Tower has been demolished, but the architect build a holiday home in the mountains of Nagano, so it's the next best thing if you want the experience. Looks like a nice place to be in nature, too: https://soranews24.com/2023/01/11/200000-yen-per-night-airbnb-is-the-successor-to-tokyos-famous-nakagin-capsule-apartments%e3%80%90pics%e3%80%91/
House of Light, out in the countryside: https://www.hikarinoyakata.com/English/
- This next trip will be a Reiwa trip. Make something of that.
Lovely train station in the middle of nowhere: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oku%C5%8Dikoj%C5%8D_Station
Bars and Restaurants
Paolo knows a bunch of them: https://youtu.be/2PaXAb8chuM
Most remote ramen off the northern tip of Hokkaido: Rishiri Ramen Miraku https://youtu.be/8LUz6Zhud_k
Kyoto Ramen: http://regex.info/blog/2013-04-25/2250
Gyoza in Sendai: http://tabelog.com/miyagi/A0401/A040101/4002355/dtlrvwlst/3607143/
Good ramen joints in Tokyo, as of March 2017: https://ramenraff.blogspot.com.au/2017/03/best-ramen-in-tokyo-2017.html?m=1
- 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
Maid cafe in Ikebukuro called Wonder Parlour (https://twitter.com/wonderparlour), maybe now in Den-en Chofu as well
- 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
- 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
Bar and restaurant in Shibuya, cheap beer and expensive food: https://goo.gl/maps/3zDOf
- "Izakaya Sachi-chan/Kou-chan", the reading is unclear
Fantastic fancy restaurant in Tokyo, Peak Bar: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3fe92x/im_ashley_barr_aka_adam_turner_the_first_mtgox/ctnvsss
Experience Anna Miller's: http://www.annamillersrestaurant.jp/shops_takanawa_e.html
Hamburg Strong in Akiba: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Hamburg-Strong/1736470053235900
Ramen recommendation from Tom-san: ramen + egg + cheese + curry powder minus soup, http://ootsuya-631.co.jp/kamibuta/menu.html
- Rock/Metal bars in Tokyo, via knocky on Discord
- Fox God bar, that’s focused on BABYMETAL
- From Dusk Till Dawn, awesome drinks they serve - FDTD
- Rockaholic is my go-to on Mondays, because the other two are closed on Mondays. Rockaholic closes at... 5am
HoukagoWeedtime reports good gyoza at this ramen joint out the east side of JR Akiba, called Ramen Kourakuen
- And it was pretty alright. He's also suggested this one, Tenryu in Ginza
This looks like it, a full-on Chinese restaurant called Tenryu Gyoza: https://maps.app.goo.gl/iB2kDCwP4R47KrQG7
Onsen
http://www.timeout.com/tokyo/museums/myojin-no-yu-oyata-onsen
https://onsenkappas.wordpress.com/2014/08/31/myojin-no-yu-onsen/
April 2017 potential
Go in mid-late March for sakura hanami: http://sakura.weathermap.jp/
- Tokyo
- Kamata
- Hakone
Yunessun beverage onsen: https://trip101.com/article/relax-and-soak-your-body-in-beverages-at-yunessun-spa-resort-hakone
- Hiroshima
Oukunoshima rabbit island is sorta nearby: https://www.google.com.au/maps/place/Power+Plant+Ruins/@34.3051576,132.9944697,2794m/am=t/data=!3m1!1e3!4m19!1m13!4m12!1m6!1m2!1s0x60188bfbd89f700b:0x277c49ba34ed38!2sTokyo+Station,+1+Chome+Marunouchi,+Chiyoda,+Tokyo,+Japan!2m2!1d139.7662469!2d35.681298!1m3!2m2!1d132.9915266!2d34.3367804!3e3!3m4!1s0x0:0xa06a31674c9a64bc!8m2!3d34.3086803!4d132.9974078
- Itsukushima Shrine
- Kyoto
- Fushimi Inari
- Kinkakuji
- Osaka
- Kobe (beef)
- Ehime / Kochi
- Alpine adventure to nice river along twisty road, maybe rent a car from Matsuyama
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