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