Why Every Traveller Should Experience Drinking Alone

Whoever said you shouldn’t drink alone clearly has never been to Tokyo. The city feels like it was made for it, what with a plethora of small, intimate bars, sometimes with no more than five or six seats and that’s if you’re lucky enough to get a seat in the first place. Most of the time, you’ll be standing, rubbing shoulders with strangers who know as little about each other as they do about you. It doesn’t matter that your Japanese is terrible and it’s an effort for them to speak English, they’ll make that effort all the same, if only to welcome you to their small slice of a drinker’s paradise. There is a lot we can learn from travelling in Japan and the art of flying solo to a bar is right up there at the top. It holds a special place alongside bullet trains as a superior mode of transportation and convenience stores that are actually convenient. But while Japan can show us this dimly lit path, it’s up to us to stumble down it, embracing the notion that the best way to connect with others is to first be comfortable alone. <a href="https://medium.com/@yourmatepaul/why-every-traveller-should-experience-drinking-alone-9ccfa30d61da">Visit Now</a>