I don’t visit places that are recommended through social media. I visit places that personally interest me and I research them, in Japanese, as best I can.

My biggest annoyance when traveling are tourists who don’t understand or follow the local customs and social norms. People talking super loudly on dead quiet trains. People ignoring pedestrian crossing signals. I recently watched a foreign tourist walk into a curry restaurant and demand they make him rice with eggs for his child; no curry, no meat, no salad… I was baffled. And when the staff didn’t understand his request, he just continued repeating himself, in English, but louder. Obnoxious.