August 29, 2018　=========

☆  tourist  旅行者

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A tourist is a person who is visiting a place for pleasure or interest, in particular when they are on holiday. When I was living in Japan, I didn’t really feel like a tourist, because I was living and working in Tokyo… but because I don’t look Japanese, of course, people would think I was a tourist. I had some very funny experiences because of this!

I can remember one day in Shinjuku, I was waiting to cross at the traffic lights, and there were a few Japanese people standing there, too. One Japanese old man came up to me and spoke in Japanese, saying he was from Niigata, and could I tell him how to get somewhere… I forget where he wanted to go, I just remember thinking it was so strange that he asked me – clearly not a Japanese native speaker – in Japanese, even though there were Japanese people standing right by me!

Have you ever had any funny or strange experiences as a tourist? What happened?

Bye,

Chris