Can I get a discount on this vase? How do I get to the ABC Hotel? Where can I find a Chinese-speaking doctor?
Getting simple questions understood can often be difficult for international tourists here, where bilingual or multilingual speakers are hard to find.
To address this problem amid an explosion of foreign tourists, local governments are introducing multilingual call services to address the needs of visitors not familiar with the Japanese language.
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