If you wouldn't mind: When checking into a hotel in Japan you may be asked for your passport, which the staff will make a photocopy of. The reason for this comes from Japan's deeply bureaucratic way of regulating the hotel industry and not-so-much a mistrust of foreign tourists.  | GETTY IMAGES
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