While I worked in Tokyo (1995-2000, off and on) and was not a tourist per se, it was so much fun and easy to get around. The trains were amazingly easy to use. Being polite goes a long way. The little bow, before launching into conversation felt so right that it always took me a couple of weeks to stop doing that, when I was back home. And I always apologized for not knowing Japanese - it seems wrong for someone to apologize to me about not speaking English in their own country.
I did not have the "tourist" experience, it was 18 hour days, shopping for groceries, figuring out how to do my laundry, etc. But I would recommend a visit to Japan to everyone. Maybe I am too easily pleased (
), but it was fun just riding the monorail out over Tokyo Bay and going to a mall. I did visit some tourist places, but Tokyo is remarkably easy to get around in by yourself, and with no Japanese language skills.
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