Can ChatGPT Act as a Tour Guide? This AI Generated Tokyo Itinerary Shows it Can (with Some Caveats)

I’ve been visiting Japan for the past 10+ years, so friends often tap me up for recommendations. It happens so often that I created my own Tokyo guide, which I’m happy to share with anybody who asks. Recently a friend of mine asked for recommendations on LinkedIn, and another friend tagged me in the conversation. I was going to share my guide as normal, but for fun I thought I’d ask what ChatGPT thought instead.

I started with a super simple request — “Create a 7 day itinerary for Tokyo”, and I have to say I was impressed with the results…

The results were a touch generic; for instance by suggesting you check into your hotel rather than recommending a specific hotel, or that you have a farewell dinner at a local restaurant.

To make the itinerary a little more helpful I asked ChatGPT to recommend specific locations using the following prompt — “ Create a 7 day itinerary of Tokyo with specific restaurant, gallery, museum and cocktail bar recommendations.”

This itinerary was much better, and started pulling out specific places I love like…