The hardest thing I found to be here is not to be able to read. When at the super market, we usually guest that this or this product is the one we are looking for. There are some fails, but most of the times, it is what we thought it was.
If you are able to read, then you can look for the things on the internet and found out what it is. Right now our only help is Google translate and I don’t remember a time where it worked.
To finally be able to read and write I am learning the alphabet. Because Japan can not make it easy, there are two different alphabet hiragana and katakana plus all the kenji. I can already bet I won’t be master all of them for a while.