Originally Posted by
Stgermainparis
Wow. I love this thread. Going to use these links and advice for next trip. Question: is it easy to figure out how to operate machines? Last summer I was trying to do laundry in France and even though I’m fluent could not figure it out, nor could a French woman who actually got really mad and started swearing at the washer. Eventually we got it working. Just a different system than I was used to.
Yeah it's pretty easy. If you're worried get the Google Translate ap and use the camera function. It will allow you to hover your camera over the Japanese and directly translate it to English. Depending on the complexity of the machine this might be necessary. There are some bigger machines that come preloaded with soap and softener, but you need to select which ones to add, so I can see you getting confused.