In March of 2010 I wrote a post that listed the places I wanted to go. I have been to many of those places now! I will list all those things again here, but this time add check marks to the things I have accomplished. I will add more to the list as I think of them. They're in no particular order.
FROM ORIGINAL POST
- ✓ Go to Tokyo
- ✓ Buy a new camera from Yodobashi Camera in Akihabara.
- ✓ Visit Kamakura
- ✓ Go to Tokyo Disneyland!
- ✓ Go to Tokyo Disney Sea!
- ✓ Go to Kyoto
- Visit Kokedera (a moss garden in Kyoto)
- ✓ See the pretty colored leaves in Kyoto in the fall
- ✓ Feed the deer in Nara
- ✓ Ride Cosmo Clock 21 (a big ferris wheel) in Yokohama
- ✓ Eat ramen at the ramen museum
- ✓ Go to Chinatown in Yokohama
- ✓ Go to Hakone
- ✓ Go to Osaka
- Visit Yamanashi Prefecture's 5 lakes region
- ✓ Climb Mt. Fuji
- ✓ Attend the snow festival in Sapporo
- Go to Okinawa
- Go to Yakushima
KYOTO & NARA
- ✓ Walk the trail at Fushimi Inari (I've been but didn't have enough time to walk the entire path.)
- Katsura Imperial Villa
- ✓ Ryoanji Temple
- ✓ Isuien Garden
- ✓ Ginkakuji
- Kokedera
- Daitokuji
- Mount Koya
TOKYO
- Eat at a maid cafe
- ✓ Koishikawa Korakuen
- ✓ Stay in a capsule hotel
- Go to a cat cafe
- Go to Puroland
- Go up in Sky Tree
- Eat at Princess Heart
- Take a Helicopter Tour
- ✓ Namja Town
- Go to Design Festa
- ✓ Candy Show Time
- ✓ Spank
- ✓ Super Potato
- ✓ See lotus in Ueno Park
- Pancake Days
- Streamer Coffee Company
- Takaosan
OSAKA
- ✓ Universal Studios
- ✓ Osaka Aquarium
- ✓ Umeda Sky Building
OTHER
- ✓ Visit Kenrokuen (considered one of Japan's top three gardens)
- ✓ Go to Shirakawa-go
- ✓ See the giant Gundam statue in Shizuoka
- See a pretty garden in the snow (Kinkakuji would be especially awesome. Look at this picture!)
- ✓ Feel an earthquake (not a super strong one though)
- ✓ Eat a cute parfait
- ✓ Visit Miyajima
- Visit Nikko
- See Lake Yugama
- Visit Oze National Park
- Visit the Japan Alps
- Visit Hitsujiyama (lots of pink flowers!)
- Tobu World Square
- ✓ Eat at a cake buffet
- Buy something at Liz Lisa
Unfortunately this video is several years old so I don't know if she ever goes out and dances anymore. Sad... :(
