Unfortunately, most people really don't speak a lot of english and its pretty hard to discern those that do from those that don't. It also hurts that everything around is in a character set that I can't translate without considerable time. I went to the ATM machine with my new-found knowledge from American Express only to find two things:
1) In Japan, most ATM machines are NOT 24 hours a day
2) Many of the ATM machines are entirely in Hirigana, there is no "English" button.
Because of these things I have retreated to the hotel for the rest of the evening (1AM here). I ordered some food from room service (Japanese Thick Noodles in Broth). I wanted to find out what was in the broth, but the gentleman in room service couldn't understand my question.
If I'm having this level of trouble here in Tokyo - I definitely won't be heading into some of these other areas where they definitely don't even see American's often, let alone know enough Engligh to hold conversation with them.
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