I can't help it, I love going to Japan.
Contents
January 2008
2008-01-09 to 2008-01-20
First trip, with Ast, brother, his friend, Comiket 75.
Refer to the [other page](http://furinkan.meidokon.net/200801_japan/log.html).
- Stayed at Japan Youth Hostel
- With Ast
Visited three sights: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Views_of_Japan
- Shot with D40
- Hinamizawa?
2008-12 to 2009-01
Everywhere! Went with AstCd2
- Shinjuku
- Omotesando Hills
- Tachikawa, setting for various heartful visual novels
- Comiket 77 (Hitler and Maikaze)
- Sendai
- School in the middle of nowhere, setting for Kannagi?
- I've concert
- Somewhere snowy, lightshow with mini Tokyo Tower-ish thing that they call tou-san. Sapporo?
- Sapporo brewery and stadium, Boys Be Ambitious
- Youth Hostel place that's impossible to find, somewhere in Hokkaido (Cape Soya?)
- Cape Soya, northernmost point of Japan, close to Russia, Wakkanai
- The town where Saikano was set
- Hinamizawa daytrip
- Lake Suwa
- Frozen lake, don't know where
Dec 22
- Sony store in Ginza
- Shibuya
- Shinjuku
Dec 23
- Meguro (Parasitological Museum?)
- Roppongi Hills
Dec 24
- ???
Dec 25
- Tachikawa park (setting for Kanon?)
- Shiori's fountain?
- Tamagawajosui-eki
- Tokyo Metropolitan Higashiyamato Medical Centre for the Severely Disabled
Dec 26
- ???
Dec 27
- Met Akira and everyone for lulzfest?
Dec 28
- First Comiket (C75?)
Dec 29
- Day 2 of Comiket
- Maikaze
Dec 30
- Day 3 of Comiket
- Line up on water side
Dec 31
- Sendai
- First proper snow
- River banks
- Kannagi pilgrimage
- Winter illumination display
- Yami-imo guy
Jan 01
- VDSL inside the hotel
- Spherical water tank on top of the school (setting for Kannagi)
- Hanabushi Jinja is out in the sticks
- Nice and warm here, no snow, on the coast
- Waited for a bus back to town, then train to Tokyo again (Bad Ass coffee)
Jan 02
- I've concert - Departed To The Future
Jan 03
- Sapporo
- Town hall and ground have a winter illumination thing going on
- They have a mini Tokyo Tower-like thing, "Tou-san", lit up
- Shobo~n
Jan 04
- Sapporo brewery and beer museum (closed at the time)
- Snow safety is a problem on roads, free bags of sand to spread around
- Sapporo Superdome
- Hitsujigaoka Park
- Boys Be Ambitious
- Trek up the hill to the obscure YHA, we're in Wakkanai
Jan 05
- Snow everywhere!
- Heading to Noshappumisaki / Cape Soya, northernmost point of Japan
- It's interesting when your signs include Russian
- Bus trip along the frozen coast, it's not very full, but I really want to put my long socks on
- We're at the northernmost point of Japan, 45 degrees north
- Feels really remote
- 43km to Sakhalin
Jan 06
- Visit a shrine
- Pass Maruyama zoo
- Pilgrimage for Saikano
- Some big houses up here
- ??? what else?
Jan 07
- Otaru? (setting for Saikano)
- Lookout over the sea
- Super steep hill
Jan 08
- ??? travel back to Tokyo
Jan 09
- Travelling to Takayama?
Jan 10
- Hinamizawa
Jan 11
- Plodding around the alps
- Near lake... Suwa?
- Spotted a Nissan Sunny
- Chi(ru)no-eki
- Stay at Amanohashidate?
Jan 12
- Next to a frozen lake
- ???
- Baumkuchen
Jan 13
- ???
Jan 14
- Akiba
Jan 15
- Milk
- White Canvas
Jan 16
- Fly back?
Jan 17
- Loot pics
2010-12 to 2011-01
Lulzfest with internet friends
- 2010-12-24 to 2011-01-13
- Visiting Tokyo, Shirakawa, Kanazawa, Nagoya, Matsushiro, Nagano, Ueda, Yokohama
- Stayed at Sakura Hotel
- Comiket again, C79
- Cosplayed with Ayu
- Hinamizawa (setting for Higurashi)
- Zouzan mountain tunnels
- The town used as the setting for Seikimatsu Occult Gakuin
- Climbed Ueda (setting for Summer Wars)
- A-Button gaming bar in Akiba
- Shot with D90
- Shot with D700
March 2012
Miku Daikanshasai with Trej
- Travelling with Omochikaeri
- 3/9 Mikupa concert
- Komoro trip (setting for Ano Natsu)
- Single-8 film movie cameras
- Photoshoot with Blitzwing as Kurisu
- Lots of Steins;Gate
- Got Eva glasses (Unit 02)
- Shot with D700
2012-12 to 2013-01
Lulzfest, driving around Kyushu, Tanegashima
2012-12-24 to 2013-01-15
- Remarkably easy to get the IDP
- Rented cars
- Lulzfest at Comiket 83
- With Ast and Akira a lot
- Travel to Kagoshima, late dinner, get drunk on shochu
- Sakurajima and driving
- Tanegashima and driving (Robotics;Notes)
- Ferries out from western islands
- Fuji-Q
- Ice caves and Aokigahara near Mt Fuji
- Restored castle somewhere (Himeji castle?)
- Shot with D800
August 2013
Comiket 84 in Summer, driving around Akita and Sendai
2013-08-08 to 2013-08-19 (I missed my flight on the 18th and flew back on the 19th instead, arriving home on the 20th)
- Natsuket - C84 I guess
- Airbnb rental in Shibuya
- Roadtrips!
- Aomori exploration
- Sendai and Fukushima exploration
- Fairlady rental with dovac
- Shot with D800
February 2014 with Kat
- Mostly Tokyo
- Lots of lolita and fashion shopping
- Shot with D800
September 2016 while single
- Magical Mirai at Makuhari Messe
- Caught up with Chris and Mayu in Odaiba
- Numazu and Uchiura (Love Live Sunshine)
- Driving to Matsue in Shimane, try to catch up with Sarah Laverty
- Bought Zeiss 85mm f/1.4
- Shot with D800
2019-12 to 2020-01
Late honeymoon trip with Adrian and others.