Japan Travel List!

There’s a ton of things I want to do and places I want to see in Japan 🙂

Japan is a pretty big country. Use this map to reference where we wanna do stuff listed below. We now live in OSAKA, our favorite city!

Kansai Region

Nara Prefecture (29)

• See Todaiji and the giant bronze gilded Buddha (Nara City)
• Visit the deer! (Nara City)
• Explore Naramachi (Nara City)
• Visit an owl cafe (Nara City)
• Visit Isuien Garden (maybe during autumn or cherry blossom season) (Nara City)
• View cherry blossoms at Yoshinoyama (Yoshino Town)
• Witness Wakakusa Yamayaki (mountain burning) (Nara City)
• Cross Tanize Suspension Bridge (Totsukawa Village)
• Attend a Japanese summer festival (2015 | 2016 | 2017) (Totsukawa Village)
• See monkeys!! (Totsukawa Village)
• Visit Tamaki Shrine (Totsukawa Village)
• See Dorokyo Gorge (Totsukawa Village)
• See Sasa no Taki (Totsukawa Village)
• Try out an onsen~ (Totsukawa Village)
• Participate in the Totsukawa Ekiden (oh jeez) (Totsukawa Village)

Wakayama Prefecture (30)

• Visit Nachi Falls and the adjourning Kumano Nachi Taisha (Kumano Nachi Grand Shrine)
• See Japan’s largest torii gate in Hongu
• Visit the resort town Shirahama

Osaka Prefecture (27)

• Experience Halloween in Osaka
• Visit the Cardcaptor Sakura Cafe
• Visit the PomPomPurin Cafe
• Visit the Pokemon Center
• Visit Osaka Castle
• Take Trevor to see the Instant Ramen Museum

Kyoto Prefecture (26)

• Visit Fushimi Inari Shrine and experience the thousand vermillion torii gates
  • Climb to the very top!
• Visit Arashiyama
• Visit the monkey park in Arashiyama (!)
• Experience dressing up as an Oiran
• See Kiyomizudera
• See Kinkakuji (the Golden Pavillion)
• Visit the Manga Museum

Hyogo Prefecture (28)

• See Kobe Luminarie
• See Himeji Castle
• Explore Kobe

Hokkaido Region

• Experience Sapporo Yuki Matsuri (Sapporo Snow Festival)
• Go to the Shiroi Koibito chocolate factory
• Visit the Sapporo Beer Distillery

Tohoku Region

Miyagi Prefecture (4)

• Visit Fox Village

Kanto Region

• Climb Mt. Fuji

Tokyo Prefecture (13)

• Visit Ogasawara Islands

Chubu Region

Aichi Prefecture (23)

• Go to the Meiji Mura Museum

Chuugoku Region

Hiroshima Prefecture (34)

• Visit the Peace Memorial Museum & Park
• Take a ferry to Okunoshima aka Bunny Island
• Bike along the Shimanami Kaido

Tottori Prefecture (31)

• Visit the Sand Dunes, Sand Museum, and EXPLORE

Shikoku Region

Kyushu Region & Okinawa Prefecture

• Travel around Okinawa by car

(personal goals)

• Pass JLPT N4 (Jan. 24th, 2017)
• Pass JLPT N3 (Aug. 23rd, 2017)
• Pass JLPT N2 (Jan. 21st, 2018)
• Pass JLPT N1
• Take the Kanji Kentei
• Visit every Pokemon Center in Japan
  • Sapporo
  • Tohoku region (Sendai)
  • Tokyo
  • Yokohama
  • Gotemba (Shizuoka)
  • Nagoya
  • Osaka
  • Kyoto
  • Hiroshima
  • Fukuoka
• Get a tattoo!!!