Japan #3 Elena's brilliant direction sense and my lack there of

The guidebook says it's easy to get lost due to the lack of road names in Japan.

That was far from what i experienced with Elena and Izabela as travelling partners.

We walked, looked at maps and we get that, always. Period.

I have no sense of directions, and nil sense of the surrounding.

"That's because you're not paying attention." So she says.