Francesca Grandillo comments

Tohoku!!!! Especially Sendai, Hirosaki, or Akita...I studied in Akita so I'm biased, but these are great destinations that are the road less traveled in Japan.

To anyone who says Japanese is an inferior or illogical language, please learn something about language before you post. If Japanese were illogical or inefficient, its speakers wouldn't be able to understand each other or it wouldn't even be a language. And of course the only reasons to learn it are from business/work necessity or cultural interest - the same reasons any other language has ever been learned. Kanji are not simply "pretty pictures" - they have radicals, form, logic, and meaning. I personally enjoy learning the different meanings and uses of kanji. If you know anything abouy languages, you agree that there is no such thing as an inferior language - simply different paradigms.