Saturday, July 9, 2011

In japan do they have english translations on everything?

Question:


Like in america there is usually spanish translations. I really want to go to japan one day but i dont want to learn japanese haha.

Answer:


There are English translations in many train stations. Airports also. But by and large, it's Japan and signs are in Japanese.

Now, this doesn't mean you would have lots of problems just visiting. My cousin and her husband came to visit once. I took them to the bullet train station in Osaka and got them on the train. They went to Tokyo, found their hotel, found the bus station the next morning, went to Mt. Fuji, found the tour bus up the mountain stayed there overnight, found the next tour bus that took them on a two day trip through Hakone and then made it back to Osaka. And the extent of their Japanese was 'good morning', 'thank you' and 'it tastes good'.

My sister made a visit took a day trip to Hiroshima. Not quite the adventure that my cousin took, but still got back okay.

Now, it would be useful if you could learn some basic Japanese. How much is it, what time does the train come, does this train stop at xxxx, where is the train station, and simple things like that.

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