JAPANESE 101: How to read elevator buttons
閉 --- there's a guy blocking the way through the gate, so you cannot get through --- CLOSE
開 --- another gate withing the gate inviting you in --- OPEN
Being tourists running zigzag over Shibuya crossing, taking pictures of beer ads and hanging out in an Izakaya (japanese style bar).
Hello, here we are.
I am having difficulties to speak Japanese, I constantly catch myself using a word wrongly or think that I could've said something better, because it's been so long. It is still all overwhelming and very different, it amazes me every time. Traveling with three people, who haven't been to Japan before lets me discover new things or long forgotten things: How Japanese are so very, very friendly. How expensive it is. How different things are handled. And especially how natural it is for me to navigate through Japan. I am a tourist, but I am a tourist with an advantage - speaking the language opens the doors to so many places, which is true for all countries. But traveling from Germany to France, you can find similarities in language as point of reference while here the language, signs and menues in restaurants give no indication to the meaning at all.
Amazing times ahead!!
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