I was on the tram in Hiroshima the other day, on my way to Hiroshima Station. This American gets on and says "who you doing?" to me. I sort of grunted in reply.
The guy stood at the front of the tram by the exit.
On Hiroshima trams it really is quite simple -- it's a flat rate fare of 150 Yen for travel in the city, and you pay with exact change when you get off the tram (there are change machines on the tram). There are instructions in English explaining this. Well unfortunately the American chap was a bit clueless.
We went one stop and then he decides that he wants to get off. He asks the driver in English how much it is -- he was lucky the driver understood him. He was also lucky that driver had a good enough grasp of English to explain how the whole tram payment thing worked. Our man from the US then produced a 1,000 Yen note and gave it to the driver. This just increased our delay as the driver needed to sort out change.
After the the American eventually got off and we were back underway I felt a bit paranoid as if people were looking at me and expecting that I would be equally as clueless!
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