By Sujata Rajpal
From the station turn right, and after two hundred metres your destination will be on your left,” explained a fellow commuter in broken English at Kyoto train station when we asked him the directions of a Japanese restaurant that we couldn’t locate. Outside the station, when we had just turned right, the sound of hurried footsteps startled us, “sorry sorry.” We turned around to see the same Japanese man running towards us.






