• 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

    • And it's quite out of the way: https://maps.google.com.au/maps?q=Osorezan

• Enoshima

  • Setting for Tsuritama and Taritari

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

• Fukushima

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

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

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

• 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

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Destinations

Other

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

• Setting for Shinkai's new thing

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