My Japan Bucket List

All Japan Climb Mt. Fuji Go to the Nihon Sanmeien (Kenroku-en, Kairaku-en, and Koraku-en) See the Nihon Sankei (Miyajima, Matsushima Bay, Amanohashidate)	Hokkaido Attend the Sapporo Snow Festival Go to Cape Soya – Northernmost point in Japan	Aomori Go to the Aomori Nebuta Festival Visit the giant Shoko-chan statue at Kizukuri Station
Akita	Iwate	Miyagi Go to the Sendai Tanabata Festival Go to the Japan Kokeshi Museum in Naruko Onsen
Yamagata See the world’s largest collection of jellyfish at Kamo Aquarium Visit at least one of the infamous sokushinbutsu mummies in Tsuruoka Spend the night in Ginzan Onsen	Niigata Have a drink at the Ponshukan Check out the Tunnel of Light at Kiyotsukyo Gorge Ride a tarai bune on Sado Island Go to the Wara Art Festival	Fukushima See the Miharu Takizakura in full bloom
Tochigi See the carvings at Toshogu Shrine See the Ashikaga wisteria in full bloom	Gunma Visit all the places on Jomo Karuta cards Drive over all 11 melody roads Take a bath at Sekizenkan Visit all 3 sacred mountains (Haruna, Akagi, Myogi)	Ibaraki Go to Hitachi Seaside Park during Nemophila season and during Red Kochia season
Chiba	Saitama	Tokyo Tokyo Disneyland/Disney Sea Team Lab Borderless Climb all the stairs on the Tokyo Tower
Kanagawa Kamakura Daibutsu Eat an egg in Owakudani Go to the Kanamara Festival	Yamanashi See the view from Chureito Pagoda See Diamond Fuji	Nagano Go to the Matsumoto Castle Ice Sculpture Festival Go to the Obuse Hokusai Museum See the monkeys in the onsen at Jigokudani Yaen-koen
Toyama See the Hotaruiku (Firefly Squid) Walk through the Snow Corridor on the Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route	Ishikawa	Gifu Go to Shirakawa-go See Monet’s Pond
Fukui	Shizuoka Go to a tea field	Aichi
Shiga	Mie Visit Ise Grand Shrine	Wakayama See the pagoda at Nachi Falls Collect all the goshuin of the Kumano Kodo
Nara Feed the deer See the Todaiji	Kyoto Drink the water at Kiyomizu-dera Climb to the top of Fushimi Inari-taisha See the Daimonji	Osaka Go to Osaka Castle Take a selfie with the Glico Man Check out the Hankyu Brick Museum
Hyogo See Himeji Castle Go to the Kobe Luminaire	Tottori Nageire-do Hall Fudoin Iwayado Temple Go to the Gegege no Kitaro Town – Sakaiminato	Okayama
Shimane	Hiroshima Stand in front of the Great Torii Gate at Itsukushima at low tide	Yamaguchi
Ehime	Kochi	Kagawa
Oita Get buried in the black sand in Beppu	Fukuoka	Saga
Nagasaki See the guinea pig bridge at Nagasaki Bio Park	Kumamoto	Miyazaki
Kagoshima Go to Cape Sata – the southernmost point in Honshu	Okinawa See the whale sharks at Churaumi Aquarium Watch the Naha Tug-of-War