Music
- Alan Parsons Project
- Pillows
- Queen
- Seatbelts
- Tsuneo Imahori
- Pink Floyd
- Yashishi Ishii
- Yoko Kanno
- Madredeus
- Tinwhistle and ocarina playing
Books
- Roger Zelazny
- Stanisław Lem
- Ursula LeGuin
- Terry Pratchett
- Orson Scott Card
- Arkadi and Borys Strugacki
- William Gibson
- James White
Comics and Manga
- Neil Gaiman (Sandman)
- Masamune Shirow (Appleseed)
- Tsutomu Nihei (Blame!)
- Hitoshi Ashinano (Yokohama Kaidashi Kikō)
- Masakazu Katsura (I”s)
- Mike Mignola (Hellboy)
Games
- Console role playing games (Final Fantasy, Chronotrigger, Seiken Densetsu)
- Roguelike games (Rogue, Moria, Nethack, Angband, ADOM)
- Miniature painting (Warzone, Necromunda, Mordheim)
- Go (aka Igo, Baduk)
Poetry
Other
- Drawing, mostly in pencil
- Miniature painting (Warzone, Mordheim)
- RC Heli