17 biggest mistakes TOKYO tourists ALWAYS make 

"Thank you for watching! Please share any mistakes you did or are afraid to make in Japan here to help each other 😎💯

You are so adorable the way you say " Shoesize's " . With that aside your video's are very informative and are definitely thing's Foreigners need to know. Thank You Nao !

Your videos have been so helpful! Thank you so much!

Awesome. Thank you for your video! Very helpful

Mistake 1: Staying in Shibuya. What a shame… spent a fortune there to see trash, drunk tourists incl. drunk Japanese, was terrible. The temple was beautiful and some great shopping areas and Hachikō was adorable 🥰 but I wish I’d taken a 1 day trip there and not stay 2 nights.

Thanks a lot for all the tips. I loved this video

About the airport: you don’t always have a choice. I couldn’t get a direct flight to an other airport

I discovered your RU-vid Channel this week and I really like your videos. I am an happy subscriber. 😀 Arigato ! 🌸⭐

This is very helpful as we are coming on May for the first time.

Good video. I will follow.

Great tips. Flying to Japan next week. Cant wait

Thanks, i am visiting Japan in 10 days. very helpful video!

You speak good english. Thank you for sharing this video. This is very helpful as I plan to visit Japan but next year during Sakura Blossom. I still have more time to learn more about my travel to Japan. Can you please share more details on how to purchase train ticket going around near Lake Kawaguchi and nearby tourist attraction.

2:03 I would add Kamakura as another place to visit. It is thirty minutes from Tokyo is very beautiful. 5:03 It is also worth noting that Japan has garbage segregation rules. You can't just toss your garbage in any bin, there are specific bins for the kind of garbage you're tossing. 5:48 My rule of thumb when it comes to non-chain restaurants is the more Japanese salarymen eating in it, the better it is. 6:16 Thanks for letting us know about tablog. I will download it for my next trip to Japan. 9:46 Jingumae! Is that the street where the yakitori shops are? Thank you for your video!

Thanks for the tabelog tip!! super helpful

Great channel very helpful advice you forgot a important one don't buy to many things until your ready leave. I am planning to visit Japan in the last week of September do you think 2 months is enough to see most of Japan. Thank you and subscribed

Hi Nao. Thanks for your helpful video. What is the name of the App available in English to use when trying to find reviews on restaurants?

Absolutely biggest mistake in my option would be those few who do not do there homework, find out that public transportation does not run 24/7, also cuts off super early. So far not 1 person can say why. Excellent all around

Excellent Videos. Thank you :) Do you know of a good Kyoto tour guide that is also a photographer?

Excellent advice 👍 I always went out for the day after 09:00, had dinner at 17:00 and caught the train back to the Hostel after 20:00 👍 Tokyo is all about WALKING & stairs. You'll lose weight in Japan !

I saw in shibuya-shinjiku that, there's a 'Shakey's Pizza 🍕 Parlor'! And others old restaurant already in Tokyo!

♥♥🌹Thank you from Romania

a bit of time in Tokyo and Gunma area. then Fukuoka and Saga area. in 2 week i will travel.

Last year when I visited Japan I brought slip-on shoes and they ended up not being as comfortable as my normal laced walking shoes. I ended up not having to take off my shoes nearly as much as I was expecting. This year I'll skip the slip-on shoes!

Thanks for the tips! I used to live in Japan (Shizuoka and Yokohama) and hope to see it again on vacation later this year. If I am flying to Haneda and plan to take a lot of public transportation, where would you recommend staying? I was thinking of somewhere around Shinagawa or Kamata stations for the Keikyu airport train access.

For Tokyo, I got the 72 hour tokyo subway pass and had an IC card I got in Osaka (the one with cute penguins). Plus, I could use the IC card on JR, vending machine, Family Mart/Lawsons/7-11. I did use my google translate a lot. I learned if the Japanese did an X with their fingers, they didn't have the product. I highly recommend a trip to Japan (I did 4 days in Osaka, 9 in Tokyo and did side trips to Hiroshima and Kyoto from Osaka and Hakone/Nagoya/Yokohama from tokyo). and remember to get an egg salad sandwich from Lawsons!

I wouldn't trust the "five days in Tokyo is enough" -advice. I spent 13 days in Tokyo, and there are still lots of places I wanted to go to but didn't have the time. Of course, I had company, so I couldn't just go to where I wanted when I wanted, compromises had to be made, but even if I did, I would've probably missed something. I believe that, depending on one's interests of course, one could spend a month or even longer in Tokyo and still find new things they want to see.

Excellent video, thank you. I would add that I used google maps or asked my hotel questions since not only do most people not feel very comfortable speaking English, they are often trying to get to work or school or home or an appointment and I didn't want to delay them. And just because someone works in an area does not mean they know it any better than you do. Also, do your homework on the culture before going and be a good guest in Japan. I can't stress that enough. Cringy or creepy tourist behavior is extremely out of place in Japan and is unfair to the people there. Carry a small plastic bag in your coat or backpack for your trash until you return to your hotel. Tokyo is not Vegas, so there is far more to see then trying to just party in what is a very orderly society. Maybe that is part of why the trains stop running at midnight. Middle eastern and Indian food are also restaurant options.

Nai can you please have a link for the restaurant app. Thank you

Japan looks wonderful, so civlised and clean.

Remember that Tokyo is a very dangerous city. In 2022, in my home prefecture of Miyazaki,there were only 7 murders, while the same year in Tokyo there were 91! I live in Kawasaki City just next to Tokyo now, but I never go to Kabukicho or Shibuya at night.

Thanks Nao! heard there is no physical IC card anymore since I don't use iphone. Please advise if you do still sell the IC card, where can I get it?

I agree with everything except avoiding popular chain restaurants. I went to many expensive independent restaurants looking for steak and they were very bad, the beef was too soft and it was priced high. Then I went to the chain Ikinari and it was better than any of the expensive places. For Izakaya, many good Japanese places do not allow foreigners so I ended up going to Torikizoku which was just OK. But the last night I tried Yamauchi Nojo and it was the best one that would let us in. Ramen so many independent shops with a long queue were disappointing. Then you go to a chain Kogenaya and it's much better. I believe they are chains for a reason because they made something good. My advice is to avoid long queues for something like ramen because it will almost never be worth the long wait.

Hello, thank you for the video so helpful. Could you please tell me if it is a bad idea to visit Tokyo in September? I have heard that it rains a lot and I already have my plane tickets for the first two weeks of September and I am worried, could you tell me what you think? Thank you. :)

Please let me know is it going be crowded from 27-29 April or not? I'm going Himeji-Kobe-Uji-Namba

i dont think going to fast food restaurant should be a last resort. there's still local supermarkets. eat like salaryman, buying a discounted bento box and side in the evening.

Hi Nao, very interesting thanks a lot, can you share the website for the restaurants? I could not catch the name 😅… thanks again

In Tokyo where is best shopping area or mall? Say is Ginza and Takashimaya near to each other? I am planning to go to Japan mid Oct. So you mean bring cash correct? Thanks for sharing 🤗

There's one problem in my credit card 💳. It's about the credit card machine and it has a 'Japanese writing'. I need help on how to operate the credit card machine for my payment and my works. Otherwise, I bring cash to pay. It's crazy 🤪.

what is the name of the app you're using to find a restaurant?

Paris is actually 12+ million. It's just that the French don't like big cities, and administratively chop them up in smaller units. If one compares like for like, the 2+ million Paris (the 20 arrondissements inside the peripherique) compares to the actual city of Tokyo, which is big, but still just under 10 million. But comparing the entire Tokyo metropolitan prefecture gives 14 million, and the entire greater Tokyo area is 37 million. That is compared to a the greater Paris metropolitan population of 12,4 million. So Tokyo is five or three times the size of Paris, depending on how one counts,

I can’t find d tabelog app. Can u pls show me which one it is?

What was the name of the restaurant review app? Is it available on Android?

I still don't know where to buy suica/pasmo (I don't have apple phone). I only saw a charging machines for suica/pasmo, nothing to buy it.

@JapanwithNao New York City has More 19 million not 8.5 Million....

Where can we find public washrooms?

2:07 This is Takayama not Kanazawa :)

Don't stress yourself about trying to follow every single damn rule. If you're a polite, friendly, respectful person you will do fine. Tokyo is full of massive crybabies stuck with their dead end jobs and stagnant salaries, they take their frustrations out on easy targets.

Nao San the plural form of shoe is shoes not shoeses.

Can't understand this guy's accent.

...recommend finding a restaurant through [unintelligible], which has an English version... ?

All these videos are putting me off going back there. Japanese can come to Australia and we won't be annoyed if you don't fit in to OUR culture.