🎒BACKPACKING AROUND THE WORLD 🎒 NOT HOSTING PEOPLE AT THE MOMENT PLEASE DONT SEND ME REQUESTS ALSO NO DATING I HAVE A BOYFRIEND *****I won’t accept friend requests from strangers or reply to random messages unless you’re interested in hosting me, staying at my place, or meeting up in person. I’m not here to make online friends that I’ll never get to meet. Thanks for understanding!***** Updated: August 3, 2026 Traveled around Asia for 7 months in 2025. Visited 🇰🇷🇨🇳🇲🇳🇰🇬🇺🇿🇹🇯🇰🇿🇳🇵🇮🇳🇹🇭 Had a motorbike accident in Pai, Thailand, and broke my wrist 🤕 Went back home 🇯🇵 to recover in January. Now fully recovered and back on my world trip! 🌏✈️ Updated: June 16, 2025 Hello, my future hosts! 😊 I’m a fun and curious female backpacker from Nara, Japan. I’m currently traveling around the world by myself from June 2025 🌍✈️ I started using Couchsurfing while I was in Australia, where I lived for two years. I also spent 15 months living in New Zealand. Traveling is my biggest passion 💓 I love discovering new places, learning about different cultures, trying new food (another big passion 😋), and most importantly, meeting new people! I’ve hosted several Couchsurfers in my hometown, Kashihara. I always tried my best to show them the beauty of Japan. I truly believe Couchsurfing is one of the best ways to experience the daily life of locals and to see the world from new perspectives. I’ve been lucky to have deep connections with some amazing people through this app and for me, that’s the best part of Couchsurfing. From 2019 to 2025, I worked as an English teacher at an elementary school in Japan. 👩‍🏫 I love interacting with people of all ages and getting inspired by their stories and experiences. Although I enjoyed my job, I decided to leave it to follow my dream of traveling the world. I’d describe myself as polite, friendly, clean, and easygoing. I completely respect my hosts’ privacy and space when staying at their place. I’d love to hang out if you have time, but I’m also totally fine exploring on my own. Either way, I hope we can share some quality time together 😊 Some of the things I love: 🏃‍♀️ Sports ( I run marathon every year ) ⛰ Hiking 🏖 Beaches 🏄‍♀️ Paddle Boarding ( want to learn surfing ) 🚲 Cycling 🎬 Movies ( except horror 👻) 🍱 Food ☕ Coffee ( addicted 😅) 🎶 Music 🌍 Languages ( I speak English and Korean as my second language 🇬🇧🇰🇷 Would love to learn Spanish, too! 🇪🇸) If you like any of these, we already have something in common! Thanks to my travels, I’ve met so many incredible people from all over the world, and I can’t wait to meet more during my journey. Thanks for reading my profile😊 I’m looking forward to meeting you all🫶 https://www.facebook.com/kaya.hashimoto.3

I'm Preston — 🔓 hacker, 🛠️ builder, ⚔️ fencer, 🌍 full-time nomad. I cofounded a 🎮 gaming studio, run an 🤖 AI development agency, and spent 4+ years volunteering in 🇺🇦 Ukraine doing aerospace engineering during the conflict. I also happen to be a certified professional hacker, so yes, your WiFi password is safe with me. Btw I'm not a nudist just in case you wondered 😂 When I'm not building things or crossing borders, I'm chasing down the best 🥩 meat dishes on whatever continent I'm on, swapping travel hacks with strangers, and collecting stories worth telling. ⚔️ Saber fencer — I'll show you a move or two if I've got my gear. I've been in a few 🎬 documentaries. The rabbit hole starts here: 🌐 https://prestonzen.com Socials: 📸 Instagram: @prestonzen 💬 Telegram: @prestonzen 🟢 WeChat: prestonzen 📱 WhatsApp: DM me My Travel Map: 🌏 https://travel.prestonzen.com My travels (48 countries, 103+ cities, 330,000+ km): 🌸 2026 — 🇻🇳 Vietnam → 🇰🇭 Cambodia → 🇵🇱 Poland → 🇮🇹 Italy → 🇯🇵 Osaka for sakura → ✈️ Hawaii and back to Osaka. 🇮🇹 Italy / Europe is next 🇺🇦🇺🇸 2024–2025 — Road trip loop through 🇵🇱🇨🇿🇸🇰🇺🇦. Osaka World Expo. 🇬🇪 Georgia. 💻 Defcon in Vegas. 5 months in 🇺🇦 Lviv. 🇻🇳 Vietnam. 102,608 km tracked. 🌏 2023 — 257 days. 25+ countries. The big one. 🇹🇭 Thailand → 🇰🇭 Cambodia → 🇻🇳 Vietnam → 🇭🇰 HK → 🇨🇳 Shenzhen → 🇹🇼 Taipei → 🇯🇵 Osaka/Kyoto/Tokyo → 🇰🇷 Seoul → 🇵🇭 Manila → 🇧🇳 Brunei → 🇮🇩 Bali → 🇸🇬 Singapore → 🇲🇾 KL → 🇳🇵 Everest Base Camp → 🇮🇳 Delhi/Mumbai/Goa → 🇹🇷 Istanbul → 🇷🇴🇷🇸🇭🇺🇨🇿 Balkans → 🇺🇦 Ukraine → ⛵ 🇬🇷 Greece. 🌍 2022 — 16 countries, mostly by train. 🇺🇦 Ukraine during the conflict → bussed to 🇵🇱 Warsaw → trained through 🇦🇹🇨🇭🇫🇷🇮🇹🇲🇨 → road tripped to 🇦🇩 Andorra → ⛵ sailed to 🇲🇦 Morocco and back → flew to 🇪🇸 Santiago de Compostela → then 🇬🇧 London through 🇧🇪🇳🇱🇩🇰🇸🇪🇫🇮🇪🇪🇱🇻🇱🇹 Nordic/Baltic capitals back to Warsaw. 🇺🇸 2021 — Amtrak Chicago to Seattle, drove south through Oregon and the Redwoods to San Diego. 🇺🇸🇲🇽 2020 — 16,000+ miles coast-to-coast by truck during COVID. Bay Area → Vegas → Florida → Key West → Maine → Chicago → Route 66 back to LA. Also motorcycle through the desert to the Grand Canyon. Border runs to Mexico. 🇭🇰 2019 — San Diego to Hong Kong across the Pacific. Neon skylines and dim sum. 🇪🇬 2018 — The Great Pyramid. Bucket list. 🇨🇦 2017 — San Diego to Vancouver x2. Mountains, ocean, sushi. 🇺🇸 2016 — Pacific Coast Highway. Big Sur at sunset. 2015 - Finishing up School 🇨🇿🇵🇱🇩🇪 2014 — First trip outside the Americas. Prague, Krakow, Berlin. The spark.

Nice to see you . I am Hiroki, living in Kansan region since 2018. 日本人でカウチの友達募集している方もお気軽にメッセージください Please read my profile below before sending me message, couch request friend request and so on. Thank you! *I am not good at meeting people spontaneously as I am busy person but I will be happy to meet you if you could book me in advance. *Basically I leave reference only for people who offered me to stay or showed me around the town for one full day. * If you look for host in Kyoto area, please send me message (not Request Stay button) after you read 'my home'. For keeping certain health measurement I require you not to stay outside in the public pkace for the past one week before arriving at my place. *If you look for someone who show you around, feel free to message me and I will let you know my availability. * If you look for business partner, I will ask you to contact me through Linkedin. * If you could host me, that's very kind of you. Just in case I have offer from someone already, I am still open to meet you for coffee. *If you just need me some tip for your trip, that’s ok. Message me directly on my whatsapp. I prefer to talk rather than texting as it save my time. *If you send friend request to me on CS if we have not met yet, I am afraid I cannot accept as we do not who we are each other. *I cannot connect you to other CS hosts for your couch as I do not know enough to know you to recommend. Up to date info Quite many chance that I visit Israel, London and many European cities. ------------- * I am not racist. I like Japanese, Chinese, Jews, Arabic, Indian, Native American, Australian, British, Irish and so on. I don't care if you are Muslim, a Jew, a Christian or any race or size. I don't care if you are gay, bisexual or straight or take both, I want to make sure everyone is welcome at my home. +447462765729 is my whatsapp

CURRENT MISSION Meeting and talking to people from all over the world, and trying to make this world a little bit better place :) ABOUT ME 54years old, Open and friendly to anyone, Maybe I talk too much when I drink too much... Worked for a company for 16 years, and quit working 14 years ago, started my cafe 14 years ago, and now trying to make my coffee shop a place where people meet from all over the world:) PHILOSOPHY Life is beautiful and simple! To raise our kids=To make our future!