Japan is great!
We went a few years ago =DH is half Japanese! Anyway I LOVED Kyoto - its known as the cultural capital and its full of beautiful gardens, temples and gorgeous little laneways. Its not as busy as Tokyo (although its still busy!) and its home of the Geisha (its worth reading Memoirs of a Geisha before yo go if you havent already - you will feel like you are walking through the book in the little laneways that it mentions!)

Also well worth it is Hiroshima - its really sad but the memorial is amazing and definately worth it.
Have to feed Iz will have a think and post more later!