The sumo Honbasho will be held in Nagoya, and we'd love to go, despite Mike thinking that sumo wrestlers promote unrealistic ideals of beauty.

This is a pretty self-explanatory gift.

We plan to go to several cities in Japan, and a two week Japan Rail Pass allows us to go to all of them conveniently during our time.

Because Daft Punk isn't on tour.

Even though they don't even bother to cook the fish, we've heard that these traditional dinners are worth every yenny.

The Shimanami Kaido is a 50-mile bike trail over a series of bridges and islands, including the world's longest suspension bridge. Cool!

Osaka is the street food capital of Japan, and we would love to steal some of their secrets and bring them back to the US.

I came across this during my routine Google search of "Golden + Guys." It's a small area in Tokyo packed with little mini-bars.

"A wise man climbs Fuji once. Only a fool climbs it twice."

Mike is hoping that seeing a baseball game in Japanese will help him to understand the appeal.