I really enjoyed this article, it is also my dream to visit Japan one day and really immerse into their unique culture, it's fascinating! I reckon this is the kind of activities that I would like to partake in, from strolls through crazy and trendy Harajuku to mystical and peaceful visits to the Temples.

Also @girlwhotravels, some unsolicited (but friendly!) piece of advice: I started following you recently and noticed that you post very often (sometimes multiple times a day). The thing is, since you are very new here and don't have that many followers yet, it seems like many of your articles are not getting much attention and are just "sinking" shortly after you publish them - which is a shame, because you make such high quality, entertaining and useful posts with great content!

The thing is, as you might already know, once you publish a post here in Steemit you have week-long window to make earnings from it. After the payout time is done, it is archived and won't make you any more money. Therefore, unless your posts garner a lot of upvotes very quickly after you publish them and therefore manage to make it into the "hot" or "trending" pages of the tags you chose, all those wonderful posts are only going to be buried under the thousands of new posts generated daily and most likely will go unnoticed except for the people that have followed you.

Hence, my advice would be to slow down your pace a bit on the publishing side, which will give you a chance to engage with the community and garner more followers while consistently posting high value material. In this way, you have more chances of growing and audience for your posts without "wasting" great articles that don't get the upvotes or the rewards they deserve! Just my two cents.

Sorry for the novel, but I hope it is somewhat useful!