dharma, Japan v.s. Spain you are definitely spoilt for choices! I personally haven't been to Japan but every friend I know who have been to Japan all liked it very much! I have visited several places in Spain such as Barcelona, Madrid, Valencia, Granada (all cities I just realised) and couldn't recommend it enough! I hope to hear your verdict soon!Thank you CapriTrotter! We will check it out. Right now we are leaning toward Japan over Spain. I'm doing preliminary research to get an idea of the expenses involved in each to compare. We are very excited even though it's 11 months away! I also looked more thoroughly into flight times and Japan is only a little over 12 hours, not 18. Big difference. Especially if we can manage to sleep through about 6 of them.