Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living

In Japanese the words for thank you are “arigato gozaimasu”. But the conventional translation does not do justice to the underlying meaning embedded in the characters used to write the phrase. A literal translation would be “In this relative world of illusion and suffering, what you have done is very rare, I am before you as a humble goza mat.” This sense of gratitude is deeply ingrained in the Japanese concept of service and of what a customer is.