First night, I have no subway map, no japanese address of the place I'm staying, headed to Tokyo. When I first arrived to Tokyo airport nothing sounds like an English-land, of course. Broken English is spoken here and there if you're lucky. People here only speak English when they absolutely have to. I suppose if you are a businessman and probably have a translator waiting in your hotel, it's different. But if your purpose is to travel in Japan, some japanese is a must. The farther away from airport you go the more difficult it will become communicating to people in English. I arrived pretty late at Asakusa Station, around 9 pm. Then a little panic started. No one understands me, even the taxi driver. I should have known they can't read latin characters. Gladly, one
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