Time To Choose!

MS PAINT MASTER! 

Hey everyone! So it is time to start choosing locations and planning a route for our adventure!

I really need to work on my graphic design skills lol

Please read this post carefully!

So the good news: We are quite literally never going to run out of locations to hit up for Tokyo Lens Explore lol. In fact, I am already looking at dates for a follow-up adventure.

The not-so-good news: We will most likely barely scratch the surface during this trip lol

THE PLAN

The first thing you need to understand is that this is for livestreams, and long-form walk-and-talk videos for Tokyo Lens Explore! These will Not be edited vlogs with all the best parts cut together.

So please keep that in mind as we choose locations!

WHAT TO DO:

I have (roughly) dropped almost all the ideas on the map below and broken the map into drive-able sections that I think we could potentially hit 1-2 spots in each section per day.
(note: I have cut out the Tottori and western area for now to allow some friends to focus on videos there! I am 100% certain that area will be an adventure all of it's own soon enough!)

Additionally there are a few outliers with only 1-2 locations in each spot at the moment. Luckily though, these are all pretty close to Tokyo and we can do most of them as daytrips in the future even if they don't get a ton of votes!

Realistically, we are only going to be able to hit up 1-2 locations in each area.

That is unless there is an overwhelming gap in the votes for one or more areas, at which point we may just spend more days there.

So please vote below for the areas that you would like to see the most.
The map doesn't show all the place names, but we can get into the nitty-gritty once we nail down the areas!! AND you can see the original list of places here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/52436790

for now, please avoid new suggestions on this post. If you want to add some, feel free to go back to the original post, or wait for us to narrow down the areas we will be hitting up!

You can cast as many votes as you want. but there are some things to keep in mind...

Assume The Following As You Vote:

Assume a 5 day trip (so we will be able to hit 4-5 areas total on this trip)

What Norm will have to do in a day...

ONE DAY
7 hours sleep
5 hours driving
3 hours recording or streaming
2-3 hours for the computer to render/export
1 hour to upload (for videos - and in the case of videos, an extra hour to premiere)
2 hours for meals
1 hour for bathing and hygiene
1 hour for camp setup and takedown (no hotels)
1 hour for admin/email/thumbnails/comments
3 hours a day for margin of error

That probably accounts for more than 24 hours, but some can be grouped together.

I am sure I missed plenty here, but hopefully this is a good start!

Happy voting, and see you all again... Real Soon!