The Best of Japan

Best Big City
Sapporo/ Hiroshima

Best Small City
Morioka

Best Country Town
Takko

Best "traditional" Japan
Shikoku

Best "Modern Japan"
Osaka

Best temple
Nikko

Best ramen
Spicy Miso Ramen

Best Fruit
Aomori Apples, Yamagata Cherries, Okinawa Passionfruit

Best "American" food
Bikkuri Donkey- Also places first for the best name in Japan

Best place to be when the sun is shining
In the car, on a long drive past rice fields and seeing hazy mountains in the distance.

Best place to spend a rainy day
Round One, Namja Town

Best summer
BBQ in the Akita Beach

Best Winter
Hakkoda Mountain, Sapporo Yuki Matsuri

Best Fall
Onsen in the middle of Kouyo (fall leaves)

Best Spring
Hirosaki Castle surrounded by cherry blossoms sipping a beer

Best amusement
Odaiba

Best chill place
Oirase River in Aomori

Best festival
Hmmm... Nebuta Festival in Aomori, Tuna Festival in Aomori, Sansa in Morioka

Best beer
Enjuku

Best snack
Rice burger from my school's cafeteria

Best sushi
Su no Ya Kaiten Sushi- cold, good quality fish and only 103 yen a plate!

Best thing to eat on a hot day
Dole Fruit popsicles, they do them right in Japan

Best thing to eat on a cold day
Nabe

Best onsen
Name Unknown in Iya Valley, cable car to the top and the valley below as you lie naked in the bath.

Best people
Okinawa people- Trusting complete strangers to drive your car while you are drugged in the back is TRUST!

Best random tourist trap
Tarabune in Sado ga Shima

Worse tourist trap
Chi no Ike in Beppu

Best place to go for "The Japan Experience"
Local festivals with yukata, food stalls, and the goldfish game

Best place for the "Food Traveler"
Kyushu- in it's entirety

Place I could go to again and again
Hokkaido