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Better late than never. On the Japanese being helpful or not. So. On one occasion a bunch of 8 gaijins dropped off a highway bus at a stop called Gujo Hachiman Inter - just to find that the destination, the lovely town of Gujo Hachiman was still several km away and with no taxi or any other means of transportation around the only way to make it was on foot. The sun was falling quickly behind the mountains, with a clear perspective of us getting lost in the middle of nowhere between Nagoya and Takayama. And here came a lady who dropped off the same bus, but unlike stupid foreigners had her little lady's car parked nearby. By means of which she delivered all of us in two rides to the town center. It did not even take a single "sumimasen" - only some "arigato's" afterwards. Our desperate looks was enough to have it done. Meaning that there are people in Japan who are eager to help. Maybe there are who are not. Just like anywhere else in the world. I guess, on average proportion is mostly the same.
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