gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> wrote:
> On 2014-09-05 04:12:37 +0000, mtfester@netMAPSONscape.net said:

> > 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?

> Well those are certainly out of the way.

> Shikoku we've been to but not in the full-press temple-crawl.  As Nancy 
> once said, "I can only look at so many churches."

I was thinking of western Shikoku; you could go snorkeling among the 
coral reefs.

  Sapporo was on our 
> list early this time, I've always wanted bragging rights on having been 
> to Hokkaido, but dang it's a long haul there and then another long haul 
> to get *back* from there.

> But I really meant in the last days days somewhere in the semi-coastal 
> area between Kyoto and Tokyo; generally in *that* part of the country.

Nikko? Izu peninnsula.

Mike