You are the most valuable person on this team right now, and it has an expiry date.
You are living in Japan for the first time, from the same country as our viewers, and things
still confuse you. In a few weeks you will have got used to it and stop noticing.
Write down what confuses you while it still does.
Travel, or just going out on a normal day — both count. Aim for around ten a week.
2 What did you struggle with?
Write it as it happened, to you. Not what you think tourists might find hard.
3 What did you search when it happened?
The exact words you typed into Google or YouTube. This is the most useful thing on this form.
If you didn't search anything, leave it blank and press the button below.
I don't know — suggest search words
4 Where in a trip does this happen?
— choose —
Arriving in Japan (immigration, customs, Visit Web)
Getting around (airports, trains, subway)
Tickets & booking (shinkansen, seats, passes)
Paying for things (IC cards, cash, cards)
Eating (ordering, allergies, etiquette)
Where you sleep (hotels, ryokan, luggage)
Not embarrassing yourself (onsen, shoes, rubbish)
Going home (tax free, forwarding luggage)
5 What happened because you didn't know?
I couldn't do it at all
It cost me real money or hours
Mildly annoying
Nothing really
6 “I wish I had known…”
How much easier would knowing it have made things?
A lot — real time or stress saved
Somewhat
Not much
7 Would you send this to your mother?
Yes
Not sure
No
Our viewer is a woman aged 30–60 in the US, UK or Australia. Your mother is genuinely close to her.
Check it & save
How this is judged
Search demand, scored 1–100. Built from how much the top videos on this subject
are actually watched, whether people really type these words, and how many related searches exist.
Nothing to look up by hand.
Then: can a channel our size get seen there, and does not-knowing actually cost her something.
Something she cannot avoid , would not know , and where
not knowing costs her — that is the sweet spot.
Everything you submit is kept , including entries this tool says no to.
Koh, Liza and Claire work through the list and decide what gets filmed.
Numbers are estimated from YouTube data — the closest measurable stand-in for Reels.