alt Hacker NewsI’ve been a tourist in Japan twice, and maybe it’s because we were using fairly well-worn routes or weren’t there for long, but we neither spoke Japanese, or had a Japanese payment card, or Japanese phone number, and managed okay. It’s not that impenetrable.
Yeah, well trodden paths by tourists will be more accomodating, but it doesn't take much deviation from that well trodden path to hit roadblocks. Even in Tokyo. Japan is huge. And tbh a lot of the experiences are soft-locked behind language comprehension.