{"id":7008,"date":"2009-06-19T12:38:46","date_gmt":"2009-06-19T16:38:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=7008"},"modified":"2009-06-19T12:38:46","modified_gmt":"2009-06-19T16:38:46","slug":"travel-aitai-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2009\/06\/19\/travel-aitai-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Travel: Aitai Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"
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aitai Japan<\/p><\/div>\n

I just found out about an interesting travel website called aitai Japan<\/strong><\/a> (translation:\u00a0 “I want to meet” Japan) (www.aitaijapan.com<\/strong><\/a>), 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<\/strong> for independent travelers on their visit to Japan.”<\/p>\n

It reminds me of a great organization in New York City called Big Apple Greeters<\/strong><\/a> (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 \"big_apple\"hours.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n

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<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I just found out about an interesting travel website called aitai Japan (translation:\u00a0 “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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[30,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan-trends","category-translatinginterpreting"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t