Japan without barriers

Japan without barriers

For the first time visiting Japan, a native of the Canadian city of Toronto, Barry Grisdale was so impressed that he decided to stay in this country. Since 2007, he lived to Tokyo, and in 2016 became a full-fledged citizen of the Land of the Rising Sun.
After suffering a childhood illness, Barry Griesdale uses a wheelchair, he became the author of the information travel project Accessible Japan.

Image: a city and a script Accessible Japan
Accessible Japan collects information about accessibility of hotels, transport, sightseengs


One day, Grisdale visited an excursion at the Tokyo Temple of Sensoji and discovered that he could not get to the underground metro station due to the lack of an elevator. However, six metro workers carried it out together with an electric wheelchair on the platform. This incident deeply impressed him and made him continue his research in the subject. Having discovered that there is practically no information on the availability of tourist infrastructure and services in Japan in English, he decided to correct this omission and launched his own website so that foreign tourists with special needs could find useful information and plan their trip.
In 2020, the Summer Olympics will be held in Tokyo, and Grisdale hopes that his project will help foreign guests to learn more about Japan without barriers.