Name: How to Avoid Crowds While Visiting JAPAN
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and shrines and beautiful nature.And 10, 000

We live in Tokyo, so it gets pretty crazy busy

Especially if you come here as a tourist,

just the sheer number of numbers with an arrow.

But we're here to give you some tips and tricks

when you're in Tokyo and in Japan in general.

to share is avoid Japanese public holidays.

Compared to like Australia, we only have a few,

And there are really like a few times a year

that you should definitely avoid, like Golden Week.

Actually, when I first came here on holiday,

and I didn't know it was a public holiday.

But of course I didn't check the calendar

Because Japanese people only have a few holidays a year.

They have Oshogatsu, which is the new year time,

and then Golden Week, that's late April to early May.

And everyone is basically traveling back home

to where their family is or going on holidays.And

like, hotels are booked, trains are booked,

And this isn't just planes within Japan domestically,

it's like internationally, people are going to Hawaii,

So yeah, it's not a great time to travel.

that time, I'd say just do some chill things.

And just keep that in mind when you're booking things.

to be pretty crowded in very specific spots.

I don't, I would not recommend it especially

just check out things even a few streets away

from there or one train stop away from there.

you never know what you'll stumble across.

You might just find like a really quiet local restaurant

or shrine and it's basically all to yourself

Because everyone's just going to like the main spots.

Yeah, definitely the average tourist anyway.

in Harajuku and going down Takeshita street,

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How to Avoid Crowds While Visiting JAPAN

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