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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
- K-On school
- All the fashion places for Kat:
- Nagoya
- Harajuku
- Shibuya
- etc.
- Sundays == Go out and be seen
- Butler cafe
- Maid cafe
Gyoza if we visit Sendai: http://tabelog.com/miyagi/A0401/A040101/4002355/dtlrvwlst/3607143/
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 (ăăăȘă), 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
- 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