Russell Newcombe comments

I’ve been three times to japan and never got lost, plan before you visit and you’ll enjoy it even more

I'd go to Kyoto to teach "real" English, being a Yorkshireman that would be interesting and fun :)

god bless her soul, what a sad story, por girl and family

I visited Japan last October and found it wonderful, not as expensive as I was expecting, blew that myth straight away, London is far more expensive, as for the Language, I traveled around Tokyo and to other tourist spots and had no major problems, I don't speak or understand much Japanese by the way.

The major stumbling block I found, which really didn't inconvenience me that much was the cash society, it would have been nice to use my card on the odd occasion, and to be able to use the ATMs but otherwise all OK, cannot wait to return