Japan

Japan is a beautiful archipelago spanning 6852 islands. main ones being Honshu, Hokkaido, Kyushu and Shikoku. Japan is known world wide for it's culture and economic might.

Being a tourist in japan is great. it is quite safe, the sights stunning and something to see or do for everyone. i am personally very fond of the fox temple in Kyoto and the imperial gardens in Tokyo.

I hope that you too will be able to travel there someday, if you haven't already.

Yokoso Japan

A welcome japan video. If you didn't want to go before, you will definitely want to go after seeing this.

http://metropolis.co.jp

Japans No.1 English Magazine, or so they say. It has all kinds of neat articles about traveling and living in Japan. A good place to find out if anything special or fun is happening around your way while traveling in Japan :)

http://www.japantoday.com/

Wan't to know what is going on in Japan? The link above is for a site that brings all kinds of news from Japan, and they are in English :)

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Travel guide to Japan

This book helped me and my friend a lot on our 1 month backpack trip in japan. It had very good maps for all the major cities we visited, had good listings for hotels and contained a lot of knowledge about numerous restaurants and tourist attractions. I recommend having one before you go out.

Japanese

Japanese is not hard to learn but it can be pain to master. It takes time and long hours over the Kanji workbook.
Here are some words to get you started

Konnichiha = Hello
Genki desuka = (polite) How are you?
Watashi wa (Name) Desu = (Polite) My name is (Name).
Dozo yorosuku = Nice to make your acquaintance
Arigatou = Thank you
(Name of place) wa doko desuka =(polite) Where is ( name of place) ?

if you like to learn more, click the picture (link) below. They are selling some neat learning items.