Places

Kiri and Rubenerd love to travel, to places. This is a list which we tick off when we've both been to a place!

NOTE: Some Windows users have reported the Emoji for the flags don't render properly for them. We don't run Windows.

Australia 🇦🇺

This is where we live, though we haven't seen that much of it. Go figure.

Adelaide

• ✅ Boat Deck Cafe
• ✅ Glenelg and tram
• ✅ Hahndorf
• ⬜️ Ingle Farm (an old haunt)
• ⬜️ Marion
• ✅ Mawson Lakes
• ✅ Mount Lofty Summit
• ⬜️ Meet Kevin, Josh, and Baxters
• ⬜️ Port Adelaide
• ✅ Rundle Mall
• ⬜️ State Library
• ✅ Victoria Square

Brisbane

• ⬜️ Ascot State School (Rubenerd went)
• ⬜️ Polaris data centre
• ⬜️ Queen Street Mall
• ⬜️ Racecourse Road

Melbourne

• ✅ Bunjilaka Aboriginal Cultural Centre
• ✅ Chinatown
• ✅ Flinders Street Station
• ⬜️ Immigration Museum
• ✅ Melbourne Central
• ✅ Melbourne Museum
• ✅ Melbourne Sky Deck
• ✅ Patterson Lakes (Rubenerd grew up)
• ✅ Rialto
• ✅ Royal Botanic Gardens
• ⬜️ Royal Exhibition Building

Sydney

• ✅ Auburn Sakura Gardens
• ✅ Australian Museum
• ⬜️ Australian National Maritime Museum
• ⬜️ Art Gallery of NSW
• ✅ Blue Mountains
• ⬜️ Centrepoint Tower
• ⬜️ Cockatoo Island
• ⬜️ Fort Denison
• ✅ Harbour Bridge
• ⬜️ Kurnell Landing Point
• ✅ Mrs Macquarie's Chair
• ✅ Opera House
• ✅ Royal Botanic Gardens
• ⬜️ Taronga Zoo
• ✅ Wendy Whiteley's Secret Garden

Candanavia (to fill out) 🇨🇦

Kiri has friends there, and Rubenerd has always wanted to go.

• ⬜️ Montreal
• ⬜️ Rocky Mountaineer (the dream!)
• ⬜️ Toronto
• ⬜️ Vancouver

Europe

Rubenerd went there a couple of times as a kid, but not recently. We have a couple of very specific places we want to go to, but honestly would love the time (and leave, cough) to just spent a month exploring.

Cities (to fill out)

• ⬜️ 🇳🇱 Amsterdam
• ⬜️ 🇩🇪 Berlin
• ⬜️ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Bristol
• ⬜️ 🇩🇰 Copenhagen
• ⬜️ 🇮🇪 Cork
• ⬜️ 🇳🇱 Delft
• ⬜️ 🇮🇪 Dublin
• ⬜️ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Edinburgh
• ⬜️ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Inverness
• ⬜️ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Liverpool
• ⬜️ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 London
• ⬜️ 🇩🇪 Frankfurt AM
• ⬜️ 🇩🇪 Munich
• ⬜️ 🇳🇴 Oslo
• ⬜️ 🇫🇷 Paris
• ⬜️ 🇨🇿 Prague
• ⬜️ 🇱🇻 Riga
• ⬜️ 🇮🇪 Ring of Kerry
• ⬜️ 🇵🇱 Warsaw

Kyiv 🇺🇦

• ⬜️ Khreschatyk
• ⬜️ Maidan Nezalezhnosti
• ⬜️ Motherland Monument
• ⬜️ National Museum of Ukranian History
• ⬜️ Ukranian State Aviation Museum

Lviv 🇺🇦

• ⬜️ Bandinelli Place
• ⬜️ Jam Factory Art Centre
• ⬜️ Svirzh Castle
• ⬜️ Museum of Ukranian History

Yerevan 🇦🇲

• ⬜️ Ararat Brandy distillery
• ⬜️ Cascade, and Cafesjian Center for the Arts
• ⬜️ History Museum of Armenia
• ⬜️ Hrazdan Gorge
• ⬜️ Kond Quarter
• ⬜️ Republic Square and surrounds

Hong Kong 🇭🇰

Kiri's folks are from Hong Kong, and Rubenerd had always been interested in exploring.

• ✅ Avenue of Stars
• ✅ Bank of China building
• ⬜️ Ding Ding!
• ⬜️ Hong Kong Heritage Museum
• ✅ Kowloon area
• ✅ Kowloon Walled City garden
• ⬜️ Lantau Island
• ⬜️ MTR to the New Territories
• ⬜️ Nan Lian Garden
• ✅ Old Kai Tak Airport runway
• ⬜️ Palace Museum
• ⬜️ Star Ferry
• ✅ Sun Yat-sen Museum
• ✅ The Peak
• ✅ Victoria Harbour view

Japan 🇯🇵

Japan is, unsurprisingly, Kiri's and Rubenerd's favourite place.

(Every City)

• 🟨 Animate
• 🟨 BOOK•OFF second-hand books, music, etc
• 🟨 Daily Yamazaki
• 🟨 Doutor
• 🟨 Famima
• 🟨 HARD•OFF second-hand electronics
• 🟨 Lashinbang
• 🟨 Lawson
• 🟨 Mandarake
• 🟨 Pokémon Centre (for gifts)

Fukuoka

• ⬜️ Canal City Hakata (looks like Namba Parks? :o)
• ⬜️ Fukuoka Castle
• ⬜️ Fukuoka Tower observation deck
• ⬜️ Hakozaki Shrine
• ⬜️ Kushida Shrine
• ⬜️ Kyushu National Museum
• ⬜️ Ohori Park
• ⬜️ Shofukuji Temple
• ⬜️ Tenjin
• ⬜️ Uminonakamichi Seaside Park

Hiroshima

• ⬜️ A-Bomb Dome
• ⬜️ Andersen Takaki Bakery
• ⬜️ Hiroshima Castle
• ⬜️ Hondōri Shopping Street
• ⬜️ Mitaki-dera
• ⬜️ Mount Futaba
• ⬜️ Shukkei-en
• ⬜️ Trams!

Kyōto

• ✅ Arashiyama Bamboo Grove
• ✅ Arashiyama Oi River
• ⬜️ Eikan-do Temple
• ⬜️ Fushimi Inari Taisha
• ✅ Ginkaku-ji
• ⬜️ Gion
• ✅ Higashiyama District
• ✅ Kamogawa River Delta
• ✅ Kinkaku-ji
• ✅ Kiyomizu-dera
• ⬜️ Kodai-ji Temple
• ✅ Kyoani Official Gift Shop (closed)
• ✅ Kyoto City Hall
• ✅ Kyoto International Manga Museum
• ✅ Kyoto Imperial Palace
• ✅ Kyoto Railway Museum
• ✅ Kyoto Tower
• ✅ Nishiki Market
• ⬜️ Nijo Castle
• ⬜️ Tenryu-ji Temple
• ✅ Togetsu-kyo Bridge
• ✅ Yasaka Shrine

Nagoya

• ⬜️ Atsuta Jingu
• ⬜️ LEGOLAND Nagoya
• ⬜️ Nagoya Castle
• ⬜️ Nagoya Science Centre
• ⬜️ Port Nagoya Maritime Museum
• ⬜️ SCMaglev and Railway Park

Odawara

• ✅ Odawara Castle
• ✅ Odawara Station (from Train Simulator!)
• ⬜️ Okada Museum of Art

Ōsaka

• ✅ Dendentown
• ✅ Dotonbori/Glico Running Man!
• ⬜️ Keitakuen Garden, Chausuyamacho
• ✅ Kobe Port Tower
• ✅ Namba Parks
• ✅ Nakanoshima
• ✅ Ōsaka Castle
• ⬜️ Ōsaka City Museum of Fine Art
• ✅ Shin-Ōsaka surrounds
• ⬜️ Shitennō-ji
• ⬜️ Tempozan Ferris Wheel
• ⬜️ Tenmangu Shrine
• ✅ Tsutenkaku Tower
• ✅ Umeda
• ⬜️ Umeda Sky Building

Ōtsu

• ⬜️ Ishiyama-dera
• ✅ Lake Biwa
• ⬜️ Otsu no Miya Nishikori Ruins
• ✅ Keihan street tram

Sapporo

• ⬜️ Day trip to Otaru
• ⬜️ Hiking in summer!
• ⬜️ Mount Moiwa
• ⬜️ Odori Park
• ⬜️ Sapporo Beer Museum
• ⬜️ Shiroi Koibito Park
• ⬜️ Sapporo TV Tower
• ⬜️ Sapporo Station (with the pretty clock!)
• ⬜️ Tourist train (TBD)

Tōkyō

• ✅ Akihabara
• ✅ Harajuku
• ⬜️ Keio Line exploration
• ⬜️ Imperial Palace and gardens
• ✅ Nakano Broadway
• ✅ Shibuya
• ✅ Shinjuku
• ✅ Tokyo Big Sight
• ⬜️ Tokyo Municipal Government Building (three times, and always closed!)
• ✅ Tokyo Skytree
• ✅ Tokyo Tower
• ✅ Tokyo University of Technology (AsiaBSDCon)

Yokohama

• ⬜️ Cupnoodles Museum
• ⬜️ Ramen Museum
• ⬜️ Sankeien Garden

Malaysia 🇲🇾

Rubenerd's family lived here for a few years, and Malay is his favourite food!

Kuala Lumpur/Klang Valley

• ⬜️ Alamanda (a Ruben childhood haunt)
• ⬜️ Batu Caves
• ✅ Berjaya Times Square
• ✅ Damansara Heights
• ✅ KLCC Park/Petronas Towers
• ⬜️ Malaysian Chinese Museum
• ⬜️ Merdeka Square
• ✅ Menara Kuala Lumpur
• ⬜️ The Mines
• ⬜️ Petaling Street
• ⬜️ Putrajaya
• ✅ Plaza Imbi

Penang

• ⬜️ Cheong Fatt Tze/Blue Mansion
• ⬜️ George Town
• ⬜️ Komtar Rainbow Skywalk
• ⬜️ Penang Hill funicular railway

Singapore 🇸🇬

This is where Rubenerd grew up, and is still his favourite place alongside Japan.

• ⬜️ Bukit Timah Nature Reserve
• ✅ Botanic Gardens
• ✅ Bugis Junction
• ✅ Bukit Timah Nature Reserve
• ⬜️ Day trip to JB (insert PCK reference)
• ✅ Emerald Hill
• ✅ Funan Centre
• ⬜️ Haw Par Villa
• ⬜️ Mr Prata
• ✅ Ngee Ann City
• ✅ OUB Centre
• ✅ Raffles Hotel
• ✅ Sentosa Merlion (RIP)
• ✅ Sim Lim Square
• ⬜️ Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve
• ✅ The Jewel @ Changi

Taiwan 🇹🇼

We've wanted to go here for ages, and AsiaBSDCon 2024 finally gave us an excuse! Alas, stuff came up. Hopefully next year.

Taipei

• ⬜️ AsiaBSDCon
• ⬜️ Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall
• ⬜️ Guang Hua Digital Plaza
• ⬜️ National Palace Museum
• ⬜️ Shilin Night Market
• ⬜️ Taipei 101

UAE 🇦🇪

Dubai

• ⬜️ QEII Hotel (the refurbished Cunard ocean liner)

United States 🇺🇸

We love the US. Ruben worked from San Francisco for a bit, and has a bunch of friends over there. Plans on hold until the fascists are out. 😔

Boston, MA

• ⬜️ Acorn Street
• ⬜️ Beacon Hill
• ⬜️ Boston Common
• ⬜️ Freedom Trail
• ⬜️ JFK Presidential Museum and Library
• ⬜️ MIT Flea Markets
• ⬜️ Old State House

Chicago, IL

• ⬜️ 360 Chicago
• ⬜️ The 606
• ⬜️ Chicago Cultural Centre
• ⬜️ Chicago Riverwalk
• ⬜️ The 'L'
• ⬜️ Millennium Park with The Bean!
• ⬜️ Museum of Contemporary Art
• ⬜️ Robie House, Frank Lloyd Wright
• ⬜️ Shedd Aquarium
• ⬜️ Union Station

Los Angeles, CA

• ⬜️ Griffith Observatory
• ✅ Grauman's Chinese Theatre
• ✅ LA City Hall
• ✅ Longbeach
• ✅ OUE Skyspace
• ✅ RMS Queen Mary
• ✅ Santa Monica
• ✅ U.S. Bank Tower
• ✅ Walk of Fame
• ✅ Walt Disney Concert Hall

New York, NY

• ✅ Battery Park City
• ✅ Bryant Park
• ✅ Central Park
• ✅ Chrysler Building
• ✅ Ellis Island
• ✅ Empire State Building
• ✅ Flatiron Building
• ⬜️ Fraunces Tavern
• ⬜️ Guggenheim (only saw outside)
• ⬜️ High Line
• ⬜️ Hudson Yards "Bee Hive" Vessel
• ✅ Grand Central Station
• ✅ Intrepid Air and Space Museum
• ⬜️ Metropolitan Museum of Art (only saw one wing!)
• ⬜️ MoMA
• ✅ Penn Station
• ✅ New York County Courthouse
• ✅ One World Observatory
• ✅ Rockefeller Center
• ✅ Statue of Liberty
• ✅ Times Square

Philly, PA

• ✅ 30th Street Station
• ⬜️ Elfreth's Alley and Museum
• ✅ Franklin Court Printing Office
• ✅ Independence Hall
• ✅ Liberty Bell
• ✅ Philadelphia Jewish Museum

Portland, OR

• ⬜️ Ladd Carriage House
• ⬜️ Pittock Mansion and view
• ⬜️ Portland Art Museum (LOVERULES!)
• ⬜️ Portland Japanese Garden
• ⬜️ Portland International Rose Test Garden
• ⬜️ Powell's City of Books

San Francisco, CA

• ⬜️ Alcatraz
• ✅ BART and MUNI ride!
• ✅ Bay Bridge
• ✅ Cable Cars
• ✅ Coit Tower
• ✅ Embarcadero
• ✅ Fisherman's Wharf
• ✅ Golden Gate Bridge
• ✅ Golden Gate Park
• ✅ Lombard Street
• ✅ Painted Ladies
• ✅ Palace of Fine Arts
• ✅ The Presidio
• ✅ Transamerica Pyramid
• ✅ Twin Peaks
• ✅ Union Square

Seattle, WA

• ⬜️ Boeing Factory Tour and Future of Flight
• ⬜️ Pike Place Market
• ⬜️ Space Needle
• ⬜️ Visit Josh Gay
• ⬜️ Washington State ferry ride

Whitefish, MT

• ⬜️ Empire Builder Amtrak
• ⬜️ Glacier National Park
• ⬜️ Whitefish Depot and station
• ⬜️ Whitefish trail