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Originally Posted by Mr.Money
help a lot to speak the language?....JR pass have a English menu ordering tickets on a machine?
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JR pass is like an airfare ticket. Pull out your passport when you order it, pull out your passport again when you have them activate it at one of the designated JR stands. Pull out your passport once in a while if they ever check. Plan out when you want to use it carefully. I usually get the one that is 7 days so I do not activated it until I have 7 days left in my visit so I can take the train to the west coast and back again if I am visiting the two major cities.
Bottom line, have your passport with you at all times in Japan, if not for random checks, then for some duty-free shopping.
You can get by with little to no Japanese in Tokyo or Osaka. English is more readily spoken than one may think. In the metropolitan areas almost every restaurant has a vending machine with pictures and/or English for you to select your food.