In this guide, we show you some of the best translation apps out there for traveling in Japan. Instead, you can use today’s modern equivalent on your smartphone to communicate with locals: a translation app.
One of the most intimidating things about traveling somewhere new like Japan used to be language barriers – being unable to communicate your needs and wants to people, or indeed understand anything they were saying to you.įortunately, you won’t need to slip Douglas Adams’ small, yellow, leech-like Babel Fish into your ear to understand what anyone’s saying on your travels.