I’ve been digging around the cobwebs of the interweb on traveling overseas in a wheelchair (myself, i use an electric wheelchair due to muscular dystrophy). I came upon a very interesting site that lists accessible places in japan by city. Personally i found it fascinating and gives me ideas for planning trips that i will have to sell my body on the streets to pay for but want it irregardless (can i borrow your blonde wig, koichi?). Also I learned the word for wheelchair in japanese…totally going to memorize that one now ( 電動車いす ). http://www.japan-accessible.com/index.htm I have traveled once out of the country back in August 2001. I took a trip to Amman, Jordan to visit a friend from college and her family that live there. It was a life changing trip for me. Plus, I got to see in person the dead sea, some castles from the crusader era, and that building in Petra nicknamed the ‘bank’ cut into the cliffsides and featured in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (was where the grail was inside, i checked it was not in fact there /sadface ). Plus, got to camp with bedoins in Wadi Rum, a beautiful rusty red colored desert. So I have the travel bug and I definitely want japan to be next on my visit list.