Let me force it.
First of all, to say "no problem" is a big problem.
Because whether you need Japanese during your trip to Japan has a lot to do with how you plan to travel.
Don't, for example, if you are a Japanese, playing place is limited to the city of Tokyo's business district, Disney, the heart of Osaka shinsaibashi, Mr Tao USJ, Sapporo's famous attractions, recommended by the famous restaurant in the guide book, etc., you won't Japanese do millions of Chinese, no problem - the street guide in the store were also mostly Chinese, stores also have basic English skills, Not knowing Japanese is no problem.
Even if the restaurant does not speak English, you will not feel hungry when you go to eat in the restaurant and point at the pictures.
Of course, nothing is absolute, and these places also have a large number of stores that do not speak Chinese or English.
It's easy. You don't have to go into a store like this.
However, if you do not know a word of Japanese, but still yearn for those "secret land", "secret soup", "secret trip", then this trip down not only you suffer, but also may bring a lot of trouble to the local people.
Here are a few examples from my own experience.
Nagoya Chubu International Airport Is an international place, isn't it? But it's a place like this, and I tried twice to persuade him to fight.
The first time was when I was eating tempura rice in the restaurant on the second floor and two girls came in for a visit.
The owner shows them the table, sits down, and they see a picture of fried shrimp tempura and point to it to place their order.
A photo of the restaurant, however, shows a fried shrimp tempura order: rice, miso soup, side dish, and four fried shrimp tempura. The two girls waited for their meal to arrive and found that they wanted nothing more than shrimp tempura, so they argued with the owner.
The owner is also aggrieved: the restaurant doesn't just sell tempura, it only sells ready-to-eat and covered rice.
So the two girls kept saying, "I don't order this and this and this..." The owner could not explain.
The two girls were still discussing in Chinese what to do, whether they should pay more for this, whether they could be charged less if they returned it, etc. Of course, WHEN I explained to them later, they insisted that they didn't eat the rice or touch the soup, and asked me to return it for them. I did, but according to the general rules of the restaurant, you can't refund the food in the set meal, so they regretted saying that since they don't charge you, why don't they eat some... The second was curry udon noodles before returning home with friends.
As soon as they sat down, the two guys stood up to pay for the bill, but one of them insisted on paying by credit card. The other took out a handful of coins and threw them in front of the clerk, saying in Chinese, "Rest of credit card."
The man in charge obviously misunderstood the two men and asked them "お accountant snapped at him in the Tio2; ro sidestruci conversational alkalis." The young man didn't understand. He replied "Yes".
As a result, the old man first gave the card to brush his part, and then ordered a long time of money, and finally said that the cash is not enough. Then the two boys thought the old man was going to take more of their money, and they got into an argument -- a Japanese and Chinese chicken fight, of course.
Then I still ask how to return a responsibility in the past, after asking the grandpa to explain to these two young men, the young man just take out the card to let the grandpa brush.
Finished the old grandfather smiled and said "thank you for coming, thank you (Japanese)", the two people said "this stupid force!" Then he left. I'm speechless.
I think if there is no one to stop the fight, there will be an article in the circle of friends titled "Chinese tourists suffered card fraud in Japanese airport, and were also manhandled", or it will be photographed by the good Japanese and put on the Internet titled "The Quality of People in Big Buying Country hahahahaha".
I don't want to see either.
2. In the mountains of Yamanashi Prefecture, when we went to the Hekou Lake to play, we also encountered a worrying thing.
The protagonists of the story are a couple of tourists visiting from China.
I got out of Fuji Park a little late, so I took a taxi to the hotel in Hekou Lake.
I had a nice chat with the driver all the way to the hotel and checked in. Then I went out and walked around the hotel and met these tourists.
As soon as I saw the dress, I knew that they were from China, so I also went to chat with them. I knew that they were planning to take a bus to Mt. Fuji station of the Great Moon Line and take a bus back to Tokyo.
They asked me how to take the bus, so I found the bus stop on the map and told them to go and see if there were any buses left, otherwise they would have to take a taxi.
So I went to the bus stop with these two.
They looked at the timetable on the platform and were happy to tell me there was still a train. Then I leaned over and saw that they were looking at a schedule up to November 1. It was the middle of November and the schedule had been changed so that the last train had left long ago.
So I told them, you're going to have to take a cab. The two men insisted on waiting, so I went back to the hotel myself. After about two hours, the lady who owns the hotel came to me out of the blue and asked if she could help me. Then I went out to look and saw that it was the same taxi driver who had picked me up, with the domestic tourists in the back seat.
The driver came down and told me that the two had written down the three Chinese characters "Mount Fuji" as soon as they got on the bus, so he took them to Mount Fuji and turned around from hotel to hotel, but they always said wrong. Halfway down the hill again, the driver suddenly remembered that he had brought a guest from China to stay here and had to ask for help.
Then I told the driver they were actually going to Mount Fuji station. The driver could not laugh or cry. In the end, it seems, the driver gave the couple free rides up and down the hill, charging them only for the ride from the hotel to the station.
And then came back to apologize to me... I think such a guest is really quite capricious, taxi driver business is not good to stem...
3. In the mountains of Danhou. Kyoto Danhou mountains rich in wild vegetables, water quality is good, is a good place away from the hustle and bustle.
However, I also encountered a rather troublesome group of domestic tourists here. I was driven from Kyoto by a friend. After more than an hour of sightseeing and chatting on the mountain road, I arrived at a mountain restaurant specializing in wild vegetables.
Certainly not in the sense most tourists would understand as a "Japanese meal." So I think, if you really don't know a word of Japanese, don't understand Japanese culture, and can't do as the Romans do, it's better to stay in the tourist areas, in fact, not to cause trouble to each other. I can imagine a lot of people yelling at me for being condescending.