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I lived in Osaka for 3 years. My first few days were kind of how my whole stay went. After 30 hours of travel, my company picked me up and dumped me at my apartment. No one showed me how the air con worked (it was still cold so I froze), or how to turn on the water heater ( a very cold shower after all that traveling wasn't relaxing). I also had to figure out how too get groceries and how to work the TV. On my second day, I was taken by subway to 2 of our office branches to be shown the operations. I was then told "Sayonora" and left to figure out the subway on my own. I did manage to get to my station, but didn't know about using the correct exit. After going out the wrong one, I spent 3 hours looking for my apartment building which looked like all the others in the area. Add to this the fact I couldn't ask in Japanese added to my anxiety and jet lag. I finally found it way after dark.
This should have been expected but I was promised help with getting use to Japan (which never happened). Other things came up like not knowing if my washer/dryer combination should really take 3 hours per load and getting blamed for everything that went wrong at my mansion (garbage put out wrong, wasn't mine BTW, or excessive noise, which wasn't me). All of this made for a everyday adventure. But I wouldn't trade any of these for the good times I had there.