TommyT Report This Comment
Date: January 02, 2006 03:56AM

Central of Niigata city Furumachi, Nishibori, and Higashibori area.

Tiw Report This Comment
Date: January 02, 2006 08:35AM

How widespreaad is English in Japan?

TommyT Report This Comment
Date: January 03, 2006 01:00PM

Tiw, sorry but I don't know so well.
But many signs...for example, Traffic signs, Shop or Store's names (In this picture, "Mitsukoshi" and "Daiwa" department),
Company's names ("Fuji Film" "Nikon" "Toyota" "Nissan" "Subaru" etc...), Street names, Bus stops and Stations names, Destinations of Trains and Bus etc... Japanese and English (especialy in Niigata city a little of Korean, Russian, Chinese) signs are many and many in large cities and towns of Japan, I saw and think.

TommyT Report This Comment
Date: January 03, 2006 01:34PM

Now about 800thousand citizen in Niigata city. The most large city of Japan Sea's side of Japan.

I tried to found maps of Niigata city in English.

Niigata prefecture's location : [www.sc.niigata-u.ac.jp]
Niigata prefecture (From Niigata Pref's official site) : [www.pref.niigata.jp]
Niigata prefecture (By NTT Docomo) : [www.nttdocomo.co.jp]
Niigata International Airport area : [www.pref.niigata.jp]
Niigata city (Niigata station's side) : [neutrino.hep.sc.niigata-u.ac.jp]

But I couldn't find "Niigata city's Real central" area! (Furumachi, Nishibori, Higashibori, Honcho and Hakusan jinja etc's area)
Very sorry...

Anonymous Report This Comment
Date: January 07, 2006 03:24PM

Tiw
See Tommy's new 9 pics from
[www.plus613.com]
You can see widespreaad English in Nagaoka.