OK, that settles it. Japan has got to be one of the most geek friendly places on this planet! According to New.com.au, Japan is using the power and mobility behind PDA usage to help tourists get around their great nation. Don’t have a PDA with you? No worries!

They provide you with one that you get to borrow. Best part is, it is already preloaded with all of the tourist info for you!

Japan will start lending to foreign visitors personal digital assitants (PDAs) with travel information and translation services as part of a tourism promotion scheme.

The pilot program is part of a government drive to find ways to make Japan more attractive to foreign tourists, who are often put off by the country’s language barrier and high prices.

Japan’s tourism authority will lend the PDAs containing Chinese, Korean and English software, to selected tourists who land at Narita Airport near Tokyo from February through March to test the response, the transport ministry said.

“We will examine ways to build an environment in Japan that will be easier for foreign tourists,” the authority said.

Japan has set the goal to nearly double the number of foreign tourists to 10 million in 2010 from 5.73 million in 2003.