Last week I attended the annual general assembly of Japan Universal Tourism Network in Akashi, Hyogo Prefecture. The organization is a network promoting the accessible travel around Japan by supporting setting up and managing accessible tourism information/support centers in various regions in Japan. They started with 5 member organizations in 2012 and now we are a network of about 30 member organizations from Hokkaido to Okinawa. Though majority of them open website in Japanese only but you can contact them when you want to find nice locations with accessibility information in their areas/prefectures. Here is the map:
https://ohatra.com/en/at_infocenters
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Accessible Travel Information Centers in Japan
Here are the accessible travel information centers run by local NPOs and tourism associations (last update Aug ...
Josh Grisdale and tabifolk9 Comments
Thank you very much! Hopefully they will see the need for multilingual websites in the future!
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I think I will work with them to update http://jutn.net/introduce so that English readers can recognize these information centers.　 Then they will receive more inquiries from abroad, then they would think to make their sites multilingual.
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If you need people to help, please reach out! @schroth-sensei is an excellent writer!
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thank you! nice.
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As @joshgrisdale said, please reach out if you need help!
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Great thanks! Do you do the J-E translation or English rewriting or?
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My Japanese is still fairly basic, so mostly rewrite text into proper English.
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I do hope to find work in Japan soon and further improve my Japanese language skills. Of course, while there I plan to do some traveling so your network is very interesting to me, and thank you for sharing the information!
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Schroth-sensei, sounds interesting and we may collaborate in some projects soon!
