gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> wrote:
> Every year from 2001 to 2006 the wife and I went to Japan for 2-3.  
> Usually to different places (except for Tokyo, our point of entry).  We 
> went to Osaka a couple of times and Kyoto twice.  From Nagasaki to 
> Morioka, with some little onsen towns like Yudanaka, and any number of 
> smaller places like Shiraishi Island, Tonno, Ayu-Wakamatsu, Matsue.  
> What fun.

> Then financial circumstances, including the disparity between dollar 
> and yen precluded it almost 8 years.  Now we're going back.  This time 
> for six weeks.  We'd never been to Kanazawa, so we're going there.  
> Spending 10 days in Kyoto during which time we'll do a number of 
> day-trips. But we still have a few weeks to fill on the dance card, 
> roughly between Kobe and the Izu Peninsula.

> When we finish in Kyoto and before we leave from Tokyo, we have about 
> 10 days.  So we were thinking about staying 2 or 3 places along the way 
> back.  Maybe Koya-san.  Izu Peninsula.  Nagoya sounds too big after 
> Kyoto.  Perhaps snooping through Shizuoka.

> Any recommendations for interesting but somewhat out-of-the-way places, 
> generally in that part of the country?

Nikko? Shikoku? Sapporo? Nagasaki? 

Mike