Big Japan Trip Take Two: Plans for the future

We're on the plane home now. It's going to be daytime the entire flight, because we're flying backwards in time. According to our watches, the whole journey is only going to be only 7 hours. It's actually 10 + 1.5hr in Poland +3hours to Heathrow.  Weird how time works, isn't it? I mean, no wonder Trump can't work out time zones!

Since we're not doing anything more this trip, we've already started compiling a list of things to do next time, in 2021 or 2025. What's that? We might have children by then? Well they'll bloody well come with us, is what will happen. Also if we go during my maternity leave, we can go when it's not 35+ degrees.

• Just a few days in Tokyo - about 3 days in Tokyo, to acclimatise after the flight, visit our favourite haunts 
• More Hokkaido - we'd hire a car. They drive on the left. Hubbo can practise his Japanese enough to get by when we have to deal with the men who fill your petrol for you.  That way we can visit the national parks (bears! waterfalls! Coastal paths! Forests!) and other more remote towns that are too difficult/time consuming by public transport.
• Okinawa
• Island hopping
• Moominland - that's opening in 2019! It looks AMAZING.  Tove Jansson's niece or great niece or whatever has been very complimentary and did some stuff behind the scenes, I believe.
• Super Mario Land - because, duh.  And since it's part of Universal studios, I am well up for that. Also we get to stay in our favourite hostel again, maybe. 
• Hakone - without the crap weather this time
• German-style spring water resort places, for the fun of it