GW begins!

So as I wrote last time the Golden Week (GW) has begun here in Japan. Unfortunate enough, today and tomorrow are regular weekdays meaning regular business days so I have to come to office, but a load of businessmen who got these two days off on LWP seem to be rushingly flying out from the country with their family and friends. According to the announcement of Narita International Airport (aka Tokyo Int'l Airport) the number of people travelling abroad over the GW (counting from April 28 to May 7) totals 363,600 which is a record-high.

So far it sounds like the most popular destinations are in Asia, but in other places too, you might have higher chances of hearing Japanese around you than usual.

What most non-Japanese speaking Japanese people (I wanted to say, non-foreign language speaking Japanese) are wanting to ask people around them is probably most times "could you take a picture of us?" or something like that.
I guess tons of people from any country would travel around with a camera in their hands, but for some reason Japanese are especially known for their liking for cameras and "commemorative" photographs here and there. Along with the popularization of digi-cams these days, I think that the tendency is becoming more and more remarkable cuz you don't really have limits to the number of pictures you can take and you don't have to carry around film rolls.

If you're travelling with your family and/or friends, you'd probably want to have a group pic with all of you in it, right? But if you don't speak the language, things might not go smoothly as when you're in your homeland. If you happen to encounter a Japanese-looking person with a camera in his/her hand and has this "excuse me, could you?" kind of expression, kindly take a pic of them.
And of course, if you're in Japan and want to have somebody to take a picture of you and your friends, people here would be happy to help :-)

Huh? You'd ask for it anyways even if you don't know the language?
Well, take it this way. Japanese are shy LOL.