Abstract
A substantial increase in foreign visitors to Japan is expected over the next 10 years leading up to and following the 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games. Against this background, tourism information retrieval systems that are easy for foreign visitor s to use are desired. The usual approach to eliminating language disparities is to create multilingual interfaces for systems. However, it is difficult to cover the necessary number of languages through multilingualization. Accordingly, we develop an infor mation retrieval system that uses only methods that do not rely on
language. By evaluating the operability an intelligibility of the system through experiments using participants, we
demonstrate that it is possible to search tourist attractions and routes using methods that do not rely on language.
