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)
    • 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
may 21 2019 ∞
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