• 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

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