• http://roboticsnotes.jp/flash/

• Robotics;Notes OP on youtube

• An HII-A Launch vehicle is shown, F17 (flight 17) specifically

  • F17 was a "202" configuration - 2 stages, 0 Liquid Rocket Boosters, 2 Solid Rocket Boosters

• Tanegashima Space Center on wikipedia

• Rough location on google maps of the space museum

• EN homepage: http://www.jaxa.jp/visit/tanegashima/index_e.html

  • Unclear whether launches are viewable or not
• Tanegashima is a small island near Kagoshima, off the far south-west end of the main island of Japan
• Not crazy-far like Okinawa, more like 50km from the mainland

• http://tanekan.jp/highlights.html

Yakushima is worth linking up with Tanegashima

Aomori

• Hiking in Hakkouda

• The deep blue Towada Lake

• Fed by the Oirase River

• Mount Osore is a temple and miniature wasteland with interesting volcanic features

Enoshima

• Setting for Tsuritama and Taritari

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

• 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

• http://www.dannychoo.com/post/en/26585/Fukushima+Exclusion+Zone+Photos.html

• Dosimeters may be a good idea

  • http://www.ebay.com/itm/Nuclear-Radiation-Detector-Digital-LCD-Geiger-Dosimeter-Survey-Dose-Gamma-Count-/170879663101?pt=BI_Security_Fire_Protection&hash=item27c938bbfd

  • http://www.anythingradioactive.com/geiger.htm

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/#

Visit Shimane, the setting for the film Railways

• 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"