A country I would like to visit

I've been wanting to go to Japan since a few years ago, and specially since I started to study Art. I started to read and research about old Japanese printing techniques. The images of the stamps describe the type of life, the customs and the culture of the times that were made. The process and the provenience of the materials and pigments is just an amazing thing to learn. My principal interest on wanting to know Japan doesn't reside in the actual times but in the comprehension of its ancestral culture that is full of symbolisms and conections with the nature and spiritual and mental dimensions.
My first approach to Japan was obviously thanks to anime, manga and movies. Akira Kurosawa and Miyazaki's works are of my favorites audiovisual pieces of all times. I don't considere myself as an expert of Japanese culture or anything like it, but the basic ideas that I have of it makes me want to go there and find out by myself. 
I'm actualy reading the Bushido Code, a book that basically describes the path of the samurais, a kind of honour code.
I would like to go to Kyoto and Tokyo at first, a very traditional turistic destinations to have two views of the country, and above all, visit all the museums and galleries that I can. But there is another part that intrigues me too, and it's the variety of landscapes that mix nature with the architecture of its temples. Just imagine the cherry blossom trees during spring. People that already went to Japan use to tell me that living there means to have a lot of order and organization in every way of your life. 
If I have, someday, the opportunity to go there, it would be definitely to learn about art and techniques, about its idiom, history and about all the delicious vegetarian food recipes, like ramen, that they made.