Travel: Aitai Japan
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aitai Japan
I just found out about an interesting travel website called aitai Japan (translation: “I want to meet” Japan) (www.aitaijapan.com), which bills itself as an “association for independent tourist assistance in Japan” and explains that it is “a guide/interpreter service with listings of enthusiastic volunteer guides who can offer free tourist assistance for independent travelers on their visit to Japan.”
It reminds me of a great organization in New York City called Big Apple Greeters (a good place for JET alums to volunteer, by the way) which pairs up a volunteer with any visitors to New York looking for a friendly local to walk around with for a few 
hours. Except aitaiJapan seems to be doing this on a national level and really helping tourists cross through what can seem like intimidating language and cultural barriers to non-Japanese.
If anyone out there has had any contact or experience with aitaiJapan, please feel free to share, either by posting a comment or by sending an email to JetWit.
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