Food

• Sushi
• Drink sake
• Eat real ramen
• Eat umeboshi plums
• Try Castella Cake

Visit

• Visit Japan during Obon Festival
• Visit Japan during the Cherry Blossom Festival
• Visit an Alice in Wonderland themed restaurant or cafe
• Go to a maid cafe
• Visit an Izakaya
• Travel on a bullet train
• Attend a Japanese wrestling show
• See drift racing
• Spend the night in a ryokan
• See a Geisha
• Wear an authentic kimono
• Watch a kabuki play
• Use a purikura machine
• Visit a cat cafe
• Sing in a karaoke bar
• Try a tattoo-friendly onsen
• Attend a baseball game
• Vent your anger in a Japanese booth
• Use all the Buttons on a Japanese Toilet
• Stay at a Capsule Inn
• Visit Sapporo
• Go through Seikan Tunnel
• Visit Saishoin Temple, Hirosaki
• Visit Iwakiyama Shrine, Iwaki
• Visit Hachinohe
• Visit Hitachi Seaside Park during spring, Hitachinaka
• Tokyo
  • Baseball game
  • Eat at a themed restaurant
  • Get a meal from a vending machine
  • Dine in a Jail Cell
  • Participate in a Japanese Tea Ceremony
  • Watch wrestling practice at a sumo stable
  • Play a Game of Pachinko
  • Drink in a Shinjuku Golden Gai Bar in Tokyo
  • Have a drink in the Tokyo Park Hyatt New York Bar (to see the skyline and live in Lost In Translation)
  • Tsukiji Fish Market
  • Visit Harakuju
  • See real-life Harajuku girls
  • Go to the Hammock Cafe Mahika Mano
  • Look around the Edo-Tokyo Open Air Architectural Museum. ￥400
  • Thunder Dolphin rollercoaster and Big-O Ferris Wheel at Tokyo Dome City
  • Shibuya crossing
  • Wander Kappabashi Utensils street, find a store that sells plastic food
  • Go up Tokyo Tower
  • Visit Sensōji Temple
  • Buy something at the Daiso on Takeshita Doori
    • Also Closet Child (browse)
  • Shop at SHIBUYA 109
  • See the Imperial Palace
  • Visit the Ghibli Museum
  • Visit Tokyo Disneyland
  • Stay at Tokyo Book and Bed
  • Experience TeamLab Borderless
  • Visit Meiji Shrine
  • Go to Dinner at a Ninja Restaurant
  • Go to the Intermediatheque Museum
  • Get the View at Shibuya Sky
  • Unleash Your Inner Anime Fan! (maybe try an anime cafe)
    • Pokeman Cafe
  • See the giant Godzilla head
  • Stroll Through Yoyogi Park
  • Learn About the History at Edo-Tokyo Museum
  • See the Tokyo Tower at Night
  • Visit the Red & White Cats at Gotokuji Temple
  • Walk Across the Rainbow Bridge
  • Visit the Meguro Parasitological Museum
  • Go to Yasukuni Shrine
  • See a Show at the Robot Restaurant
• See Little Edo period buildings in Kawagoe
• Visit Kamakura
• Visit Mount Fuji
• Go to Fuji-q Highland and ride Fujiyama and Takabisha, Yamanashi
• Yenessun Spa Resort
• Stay at Nishiyama Onsen Keiunkan (oldest hotel), Yamanashi-ken
• Visit Matsumoto Castle
• Walk through the Tunnel of Lights in Winter, Kuwana
• Steel Dragon, the worlds longest coaster, and White Cyclone at Nagashima Spa Land (ナガシマスパーランド), Mie Prefecture
• Visit The Horyuji Temple Pagoda, Nara
• Kyoto
  • Meet/see a Geisha
  • Visit Gion
  • Zen Garden of Kyoto - Ryōan-ji
  • Explore the Arashiyama Bamboo Forest
  • Go to Kiyomizu-Dera
  • Find the Ujigami Shrine, Uji
• Universal Studios Japan, Osaka
• Visit Izumo-Taisha Shinto Shrine, Izumo
• See The A-Bomb Dome, Hiroshima
• Walk down the Wisteria tunnel in Kawachi Fuji Gardens, Kitakyushu
• Go to the Starbucks with the cool ceiling (Starbucks Coffee 太宰府天満宮表参道店), Fukuoka
• Visit Aogashima Island
• See the Eight Hells of Kyushu, Beppu