To do list...

[feast_at_heorot]

On Miriam's request, I have started actually writing down my Japan to do list....
Inevitably this will go through a few edits...
X means I did it

EAT....
X zaiten sushi
X proper Tokyo sushi
X okonomiyaki
fugu
X yakitori
X lots and lots of ramen
X traditional soba, in an old style restraunt
sushi off a naked person (not sure they still do that here)
Sendai cow'

Comments

[majoru]

- Go to the Yuki Matsuri in Sapporo and see all the 'igloos' (especially the little ones with candles)
- Try one of those crazy washing-tub-with-only-one-paddle-tied-to-the-side boats on Sadou-shima.
- Eat oden from a street vendor
- Don't choke to death on a New Years Mochi-gome
- When you try natto improve it to vague edibility with sliced green onions, mustard, an egg yolk, some shoyu, and whip it full of air with chopsticks and then beat it into hot rice. Anything less is death, death, death... (it's available over here, and it's ok with the above treatment).

[cutselvage]

See a real geiko.
Go to a beer garden (I assume you've already done this).
Live off ramen noodles when Nova doesn't pay you.
Do the 88 Temple Pilgrimage in Shikoku
Go to the onsen with monkeys in

[nakedmidget]

Go and see crazy japanese cosplayers?

[feast_at_heorot]

Been there, done that.