Steppin out on my own

So after about 2 weeks with my brother Pete it was time for him to go back to work and me to start the backpacking part of my trip. When I left for Japan I really thought that all my time solo traveling around Latin America prepared me for this as well but even though I had learned a few phrases under my brother's tutelage (Ubinkyoku wa doku deska? = Where is the post office? really served its purpose of getting my to a useful ATM but it's just about the only one I still remember) I was surprisingly nervous. As many places I've traveled to and around on my own before I've never run into such a language barrier nor been in such a foreign culture. There are a lot of etiquette rules over there that I new existed but had no real clue about and it made me a bit worried that I was going to accidentally offend the entire nation. I barely caught my first bus out of Yonago heading to Hiroshima but I'm glad I did because it's an eye opening and powerful place.