Anywhere where there isnt japanese or japanese things.
Nah i guess
Hokkaido, it seems closer to home (im from scotland).
Japanese look at hokkaido much like europe looks at scotland, a blasted chillwaste where people cling to a few valleys and glens nopt completely consumed by the drifting ice-winds and snow-drifts, where life is short, hard and poverty is the norm.
But being a scotsman i know better, i also know northern climes arent just cold deserts, and are infact quite nice, at least to me, and who knows, maybe i would see some real countryside (my girlfriend always says "were in the country" when were driving through an area primarily crushed together housing instead of crushed together apartment buildings).
And who knows, maybe in Hokkaido i wont have to get on a packed commuter train for an hour or something just to go to a cinema or travel agent or, you know....basic things that are never more then a 15 minute drive in my home city.
For being the biggest city on earth, alot of tokyo doesnt have much else beyond a convenience store and a supermarket a slightly longer walk away.
No prizes for guessing im going through a slightly less rose tinted phase of japan, lol.
So yeah, Hokkaido and Kyoto are the only places i really want to see, and if i had the time and inclination, the inland sea, and perhaps kyushu.But at the momment, Hokkaido first, im really homesick lately and going to Hokkaido would help releive the constant pining for home comforts.