My friend just bought tickets for me and him to go on vacation to Japan for two weeks between September 16th (arriving the 17th in Japan) to October 1st 0-0. The first week will be in Tokyo and the second week we'll be going to other places such as Sendai and Kyoto (still working on that). I'm happy as visiting Japan is something I've always wanted to do since I was a kid :3. Also, this is only the 2nd time I've been outside of the US in my life (first being going to the UK in 2018). I want to visit many places such as Akihabra and it's many tech and retro shops, the many great places in Shinjuku (as well as the LGBTQIA+ hub that is Shinjuku Ni-Chrome (新宿二丁目)/Shinjuku District 2), Tokyo Skytree, and many, many others. And on the second week, I hope to go to places like Fox Village (キツネ村) and Tashirojima (田代島) aka Cat Island (猫島) :3, and the many shrines and onsens :3.

The language barrier scares me abit, I know some VERY basic and broken Japanese (as Japanese grammar always trips me up), maybe enough to get by in certain situations like asking where things are (Xはどこですか? / X wa doko desu ka?) such as the restroom (トーレ/ to(u)re) and train station (駅 / Eki) , "How much is that?" (いくらですか？/ Ikura desu ka?), "What time is it?" (何時？/ Nanji?), "Where am I?" (ここはどこ? / Koko wa doko?), "HELP!" (助けるて！/ Tasukerute!), the standard time-of-day greetings, the numbers, and what-have-you. But ordering things might be daunting, as well as my biggest enemy: Kanji, making it a pain to figure things out... Thankfully in most of Tokyo, the signs also have English transcriptions printed on them and many hotels and ATMs have kiosks with English options, but many places don't have English menus or have any staff that speak English ^^;. I am sure though there will be people there that can help :3

Either way, I can already tell it's going to be super fun ^-^