Archived:NipponDesires

Places people want to see. Places people really want to see. Places people would be irritated to miss the chance to have visited.

Ben: Some photogenic view of Fuji, day of hiking in mountains/forests, Jigokudani Monkey Park, Yakushima, Osaka aquarium, old Kyoto
Lmm: Hot Springs, Tokyo International Anime Fair, Akihabara, Otowa-no-taki, Cherry Blossoms, the Monkey Park from K-ON!, that movie land place, Snow (priority order, first four in particular, I could probably come up with more)
Dan: Onsen, Tokyo architecture (preferably at night), maybe see sake being made
Philip: Yakushima (looks pretty damned awesome) - probably some hiking there or something, old Kyoto (perhaps with a stop in Uji), Cherry Blossoms

Sat 17th/Sun 18th: get Ben's view of Fuji at some point
Monday 19th: Lmm and Emma arrive. Osaka aquarium, -> Kyoto in the evening.
Tue 20th: Old Kyoto, Otowa-no-taki.
Wed 21st: Kyoto/Uji
Thur 22nd: Jigokudani Monkey Park, on the way back to Tokyo
Fri 23rd: Tokyo, including a look at night
Sat 24th: Tokyo anime fair
Sun 25th: More Tokyo and/or anime fair
Mon 26th: Tokyo? Ghibli museum? Onsen? Sake distillery?
Tue 27th: Emma flies home. The rest of us go to Yakushima
Wed 28th: Day of hiking around Yakushima. See if we can find some cherry blossoms too.
Thur 29th: More Yakushima? Back to the mainland?
Fri 30th: Whatever we didn't do on Mon 26th
Sat 31st: Whatever we didn't do yesterday. Do some of us fly home already?
Sun 1st: Many of us fly home?

Thoughts:

I think this is about the right amount of travelling around to be doing; certainly I wouldn't want to do much more (but obviously I'm in a different position from everyone else)
We could easily have one more day around Osaka/Kyoto if we wanted
I'm going by Ben's statement that Tokyo has at least two days' worth of stuff to do there, even though none of us have really listed that as a thing-to-do
I'd rather do Yakushima early in week 2 than right at the end, just in case hilarity ensues
Reorder what we do on 26th/30th/31st based on what Emma wants to do
I haven't really put anything down for 17th/18th for obvious reasons

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