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Preparedness checklist

• Think of some stuff to do and/or an event to centre the trip around

  • Spring and valentine's day, I guess?

• Negotiate a suitable set of dates with your comrades

• Check prices for airfares and jiggle the dates until optimal
• Apply for leave from work
• Chase management for receipt of request
• Confirm leave approval
• Book airfares
• Thrash out a rough timeline of where to be on which days
• Figure out where you'll be and book accommodation
• How much is accommodation going to cost?
• How about travel?
  • JR pass?

  • Car hire? http://rent.toyota.co.jp/en/index.html

• How many yens will you need? Buy some yens

Ideas

What stuff do we want to do?

• Enoshima: http://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Enoshima

• Shimane, out Nagoya/Gifu way, for that inaka experience

• The K-On school is out near Nagoya, Blitz would be happy to guide
• All the fashion places for Kat:
  • Nagoya
  • Harajuku
  • Shibuya
  • etc.
• Sundays == Go out and be seen
• Butler cafe
• Maid cafe

• Dem ruins! http://www.michaeljohngrist.com/ruins-gallery/

• 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

• That New Type bar in the same building as Cos-Cha and Little BSD

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

  • The setting for Shinkai's newest thing

• 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