There are so many groups handing out travel awards now that it¡¯s almost necessary to award the awardees in order to make sense of it all.
It seems like you can¡¯t go two seconds without hearing that another organization you¡¯ve never heard of has declared this city or that country as the next big thing for tourists looking to avoid the well-trodden path. There¡¯s no accounting for taste, however, and one traveler¡¯s commodification of the globe-trotting experience is another¡¯s essential if not handy guide.
If there¡¯s any area where Japan¡¯s top travel destinations lag behind the rest of the world, and where there¡¯s a yet-to-be-filled niche for a voice to cut through the void, it¡¯s accessibility. Thousand-year-old temples aren¡¯t wheelchair friendly, and the majority of tour operators outside of major cities struggle to communicate with travelers who can only speak English (leaving aside other non-Japanese languages).
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