• 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/

• 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
• Fukushima

  • 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

• Gyoza if we visit Sendaii: http://tabelog.com/miyagi/A0401/A040101/4002355/dtlrvwlst/3607143/

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

• Akihabara Beer Fair at A-Button, 11/23 to 12/2

  • Dammit, that's too early!

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

Accepted

Destinations

• Robotics;Notes OP shows a space launch from Tanegashima Space Centre - might be something worth visiting?

  • 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

  • How to get around

• Yakushima is worth linking up with Tanegashima

• Aokigahara - the "suicide forest" near Mt Fuji

Other

• Yanaka Ginza, a proper shoutengai

• Go see Eva: http://ticket.evangelion.co.jp/cinemalist.html

• Tokyo-eki light show, 21st to 28th: http://nlab.itmedia.co.jp/nl/articles/1209/24/news103.html

Bars

• 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