In a foreign country, it's always good to know the language of the country you're visiting. If you get lost or need to buy a cab, or even need to ask the time, it's always good to know certain helpful phrases. When I was in Japan, my group and I did a lot of traveling all over. We went to Kyoto prefecture, Tokyo prefecture and also city and Narita (a small city near Tokyo). We walked from about 8 in the morning to 10 at night every day. Every day we covered about 10 miles or so on foot without nearly any seating besides on the subway (if it wasn't busy).
Our teacher wanted us to learn many routes ourselves, so he had us figure out the Tokyo subway system and find our route, and ask many people for directions. He always knew where we were going, but he wanted us to have the experience of getting around ourselves. He also wanted us to be somewhat independent and not blindly follow him around like stray puppies. It's always good to have a map of the area on you when you're in a new country. If you don't have a map, you could easily get lost or not know your route.
It was hilarious, three times when we asked people for directions, they gave us directions completely opposite of the way we were supposed to go. Without our teacher to tell us where we really should go
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