- 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