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I can't help it, I love going to Japan.

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

• 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

• 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.