lol.. at julius' comment. i guess there's some truth in it, but i stayed at a small hotel 20 miles south of osaka last year, and the management was really nice. i have an okay grasp of the japanese language, so i was able to communicate with them, and i was pretty surprised at how accommodating they were. however in tokyo, management wasn't as cool... a lot of times even tho i wanted to practice japanese i got forced into broken english conversations despite my persistence. i felt like slapping management at those times.