
Things Left to Do
2/25/2025
IN GENERAL ʕᵔᴥᵔʔ :
- Get yen
- Make packing list
- Buy new sneakers for walking
- Keep doing stretches/strengthening exercises/physio
- Figure out what activities to do the train
- Get documentation about medications from doctor
- Do StreetWalks every month (3-4 hour long walks to prepare)
- Get brows and hair trimmed/dyed before the trip
- Prepare itabag before trip
- Make nui outfits for trip x 3
WHEN THE SCHEDULE IS RELEASED:
- Book collab cafés
- Buy tickets for Sumo
- Buy tickets for Kabuki
- Buy tickets for a movie
- Buy tickets for a 2.5D Stage play
MARCH:
- Book time off at work
- Buy treat bags for omiyage
- Buy maple syrup candies for omiyage
- Make Daddy Eyeball nui
APRIL :
- Buy JR Rail Pass
- Book hotel limousines
- Book Shinkansen and other train seats
- Change-check ins at hotels once the train passage is booked
- Buy tickets for Tokyo Tower
JULY:
- Buy tickets and passes for Universal Studio Japan
- Buy tickets for Kaiyodo Figure Museum Miraiza Osaka-Jo
- Buy tickets for Sakai City Traditional Craft Museum and Knife Shop
- Buy tickets for Cup Noodle Museum
- Buy tickets for Osaka Bay Aquarium
- Buy tickets for Osamu Tezuka Museum
- Do the lottery for the Nintendo Museum tickets
AUGUST:
- Do the lottery for the Chiikawa Café
- Make a reservation for the Q-Pot Café
SEPTEMBER:
- Buy tickets for Mizuki Shigeru Memorial Museum
- Buy tickets for Kumamoto Castle
- Buy tickets for Kyoto International Manga Museum
- Make a reservation for Kumachan Onsen Sapporo
- Goryokaku Tower
- National Museum of Nature and Science
- Register my trip with Travel.gc.ca
- Prepare travel health kit
- Order eSIM for my phone
- Fill out the QR Code Customs document from Visit Japan
- Prepare suitcase
- Make small cards for daily trips
TO PURCHASE IN PERSON:
- Tickets for Yagitei-Yagi Museum
- Ryozen museum
- Terada Inn Fushimi
- Hijikata Toshio Museum
- Shinsengumi Hometown Museum
- Shin-Yokohama Ramen Museum
- Bunshin Tattoo Museum
- Japanese Sword Museum
- Asahikawa City Museum
- Sapporo Maruyama zoo
- Abashiri Prison
- Hokkaido Museum of the Northern People
COMPLETED AS OF FEBRUARY 25th:
- Booked lodgings in Osaka
- Booked lodgings in Sakaiminato
- Booked lodgings in Hiroshima
- Booked lodgings in Kumamoto
- Booked lodgings in Kyoto
- Booked lodgings in Tokyo
- Booked lodgings in Hakodate
- Booked lodgings in Asahikawa
- Booked lodgings in Abashiri
- Booked lodgings in Tokyo for final night
- Booked flight from Ottawa to Osaka and Tokyo to Ottawa
- Booked flight from Memembatsu to Tokyo
- Bought passport cover
- Bought packing cubes
- Bought comfortable pants for plane travel
- Bought compression socks
- Bought stamp book
- Bought/prepared books for travel time
- Bought coin purse for yen coins