Hostel and other recommendations for solo travel in Japan? I'm about to start a RTW trip in Japan, spending two weeks there in November. I'm starting to map things out and book hostels (apparently it's hard to do it as you go there), so I'm looking for hostels that are easy to meet people in. I don't know a word of Japanese yet, so I'll need to meet other travelers to avoid a really lonely time there.
The reviews on HostelWorld seem to say the same type of thing everywhere: "It's really clean and great, but not really a great place to meet people".
So if you've been there, do you have any recommendations on places you had great experiences staying at in Japan? And more generally, any tips about solo travel or "must-do" things in Japan?