• Taking a relaxing dip in an onsen (hot bath) at Beppu or Asoyama
  • Admiring the cherry blossoms in Tokyo’s Ueno Park in March
  • Drinking in the view of Tokyo from the top of Mt Fuji
  • Pretending you are a Samurai warlord at Himeji-jo-castle
  • Having a zen experience at Kinkakuji temple, Kyoto
  • Finding out why war sucks at the Hiroshima or Nagasaki war museums
  • Riding on a slide made entirely of ice at the Sapporo Snow Festival