I will travel alone to Japan for one week this summer, will English be enough or I'll need to put some goofy ass translator on my phone to be und...

I will travel alone to Japan for one week this summer, will English be enough or I'll need to put some goofy ass translator on my phone to be understood?

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  1. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    about 10% of people speak english here, airports and major trainstations have english speaking staff. Talk to the combini poos if you want to speak english

  2. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    In short, if youre not a moron you'll be fine. Most if not all transportation methods have English signage and audio announcements. Traveling around will be no problem. Not all but a lot of restaurants have pictures of the plate so you can point and say "kore, kudasai", some will even have English menus that will be given to you if you don't look japanese.
    You should get a translator for sure. Example the first time I went to Japan I saw a old wooden sign by a creek, took a pic, and translated it. It said "Don't fish the fish, keep the river clean, please." And you can do the same with menus in places that don't have pics or English.

  3. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Unless you are australian (which you might be since you ask moronic questions), why would you spend only 1 week in Japan when it takes 15+ hours of flight from most western countries?
    The first day is always jetlag day and the last day is takeoff day, so that's only 5 good days.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >having to fly more than 10 hours to japan
      Top kek, move to a first world country

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Why?
        They now have to fly around Russia, something second and third worlders don't have to do.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        New York to Tokyo is15 hours
        London to Tokyo is 15 hours

        What do you consider "first world", friendo? Fricking Brisbane or some shit?

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >US
          >UK
          >not third world
          Come on son

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            learn what the fricking word means you mouthbreather.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              Politically USA and UK are 1st world
              Culturally and societally they are 3rd or even 4th world

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                ok moron

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                delusional

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          China #1
          Usa #2
          Euro is third world now

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          I mean brisbane is the greatest city in the world

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Flying from Aus to Japan rules, it's a relatively short flight and time different is so small you dont get any jetlag.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Assuming you are going to Tokyo, Kyoto or Osaka, basic polite Japanese like sumimasen, arigatou etc. combined with body language and simple english will get you plenty far.

      Must be either naive or a poorgay. Though, if he's a poorgay he musta also be naive since you'd save up more to afford being there longer

      >having to fly more than 10 hours to japan
      Top kek, move to a first world country

      Name a single 1st world country that has sub 10h flights to Japan

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >Name a single 1st world country that has sub 10h flights to Japan

        Singapore. HK. Taiwan. South Korea. Hawaii if you want to get technical. And Australia by a c**thair/

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I'm going for two weeks. Is it enough to see all of tokyo?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        2 weeks is pretty good for just tokyo. definitely no less than 2 weeks tho.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        You can do Tokyo alone in 1 week.
        Day 1 Shinjuku
        Day 2 Shibuya
        Day 3 Akihabara
        Day 4 Odaiba
        Day 5 Harajuku
        Day 6 Asakusa
        Day 7 ..

        If OP only does Tokyo in 1 week it's doable.
        But he said Japan in general, so if he thought he could do Tokyo + Kyoto or Osaka or whatever, then no.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          see
          This is what you should. Maybe take something out and add Chiyoda City if history shit interests you. And make sure to get a retro game console for cheap when you're in Akihabara to resell it back in the states

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          I really dont see how Harajuku needs its own day. what are you doing in Harajuku for 8-24 hours? same can be said for most of these like Odaiba and Akihabara. Aki maybe if you hit up an insane amount of claw machines and hit night life but pretty much every one of these wards has as many arcades its just not located in kawaii anime weeb land.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Odaiba sucks unless you're a huge Gundam fan and even then it's eh. Check out Nakano or Shimokitazawa.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Shimo is for basic boho b***hes, filled with thrift stores and coffee shops.

            I avoid like the plague.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          What the frick is he going to do in Harajuku for one day? That place can be skipped entirely.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Ah yes, the famously still up-and-running Odaiba complete with Venus Fort and Gundam...

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          My plan is the same as anon above but going to japan in the fall. My plan is

          Day 1: Shinjuku, specifically Kabukicho
          Day 2 Shibuya for the nice shrines and Harajuku
          Day 3: Akihabara and Chiyoda City to see more shrines and castles
          Day 4 Asakusa
          Day 5 Odaiba

  4. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    You'll be fine. You won't have any meaningful conversations with locals but you'll be able to do simple shit.

  5. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I've been to Japan 3 times and didn't speak a word of Japanese the entire time. You will be fine solo or just get on Tinder for a translator and/or cooming.

  6. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Learning the alphabet in a weekend and the first 100 N5 kanji in a week or two and you'll be able to get around very easily.

  7. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Will I be fine in eating at those get in ans get out soba/katsudon restaurants you see on youtube during peak hours? Feels like the staff might get annoyed with trying to help me with the menu

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      i'll answer this since i solo travel frequently for work and staff debacles are my biggest nightmare. scope the place out first either in person or online. If it has a ticket machine out front, no problem. insert money, click food button, take ticket, click change button and take change. Then you just hand your ticket to the staff, 0 words needed. Picture menus are a bit more dicey, as you might get follow up questions about how you want your noodles, etc. I was there in November and some places in major cities even have tablet ordering now w language support. Just take 5min to do some groundwork before meals and you'll be okay.

  8. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I'm in a similar situation to OP and I'll be stopping by Japan for 4 days. I'm not sure if it's worth trying to take the train to Kyoto or some other nearby towns or if I'd be better off just staying in Tokyo the whole time.

  9. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    A thread died for this.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      10+ threads on SighSee die every day for the same moron weeb jap thread

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Why won't jannies do their goddamn jobs?

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