[Columbine]

If you're looking for routes in a large municipal area you could try looking to see if the city municipal transportation office has an english mirror site. Sometimes it's on the city council website. Anyway, I know Osaka and Tokyo do (over a big area too), and they specifically supply that kind of timetabling information for any and all buses in english. They sometimes can also hunt up timetables for outside the area although they might only be in Japanese. If your japanese is good enough, you can often just pull up the timetables online direct if you know the names of your destination and starting point, or a bus number.