32/47

After reading this post on Cherry Blossom Adventures about how many prefectures in Japan you had been to, I thought I should borrow the idea and post too, since it does involve two of my very favourite things:
1) travel and
2) lists!!

But while doing this, I realised that I have forgotten a lot of information, like place names/dates etc for most of the places. I really should write this down before I forget for ever, right!? Gotta go back and look through photos to work that one out - sounds like a new project for a rainy day! I also realised that I had been to one more pref than I had thought, so my total so far is 32/47....only 15 more to go!

I've been here:

Hokkaido
1. Hokkaido - Sapporo Yuki matsuri with L&L; when on JET with my parents and friend J-ko; June Road trip with J

Tohoku
2. Aomori - Road trip with J
3. Iwate - 3 day long w/end road trip with J and 5 others
4. Miyagi - Road trip with J to Sendai area
5. Akita
6. Yamagata

Kanto
10. Gunma
11. Saitama - one week homestay as uni student to Kawagoe
12. Chiba - Bosohanto road trip 2009
13. Tokyo - lived there
14. Kangawa - live there; many travels

Chubu
15. Niigata - ski; Sado Island Summer Taiko festival with K "Earth Celebration"
17. Ishikawa - Noto Peninsula road trip with J
19. Yamanashi - camping
20. Nagano - ski
21. Gifu - road trip with J to shirakawa-go, Hida Takamatsu
22. Shizuoka - on our recent road trip to Hamanako
23. Aichi - Nagoya Expo; recent road trip with J to Hamanako

Kansai
26. Kyoto - 3 times for sightseeing plus 2 times for work
27. Osaka - 3 times sightseeing
28. Hyogo - once maybe 2times sightseeing
29. Nara - 3 times sightseeing

Chugoku
34. Hiroshima - 2 times sightseeing, 2 times skiing

Shikoku
39. Kochi - to Shimanto-gawa for a weekend away

Kyushu
40. Fukuoka - several times, usually to trip the light fantastic at the Crazy or Happy Cock bars when I was young and carefree!!
41. Saga - skiing once, been THROUGH it several times...
42. Nagasaki - lived there, traveled there several times
43. Kumamoto - several times
44. Oita - lived there
45. Miyazaki - lived close to the border, so often hopped across for some Miyazaki beach action or just a day drive. I like Miyazaki!
46. Kagoshima - several times
47. Okinawa - once, last week to the mainland

My to-go-to list:
7. Fukushima
8. Ibaraki
9. Tochigi
16. Toyama
18. Fukui
24. Mie
25. Shiga
30. Wakayama
31. Tottori
32. Shimane
33. Okayama
35. Yamaguchi
36. Tokushima
37. Kagawa
38. Ehime

the rest of the camping weekend

We set up tent in the camping grounds by Hamanako Lake on Saturday afternoon, and spent a leisurely afternoon playing on the grass (K and R), going for a walk, J hunted down some asari (he got 3!!) and just relaxing. Then we went to a hotel close by for a bath, followed by a trip to find something for dinner, as we didn't bring any cooking suff with us this time. We found a huge Jusco department store with a food court, so we got to have yummy ishiyaki bibimbap (I haven't had it for AGES and was craving it, without craving the smokey yakiniku atmosphere so it worked well). Then we went back to the site, and basically all fell asleep early. It was a 90% chance of rain (haha) in the morning, so we had planned to get away early....but everyone else in the campsite beat us and we were the last to leave at about 8am. Luckily it was only spitting while we packed up. Just as we got in the car to head off, it started to come down heavy, and stayed that way all the way home, so we didn't get any sightseeing in on the way home. It was a nice little trip away though.