The young woman was waiting for a bus at a bus stop

Young woman waiting for bus at bus stop — Young woman waiting for bus

I got off the bus. I looked back and saw a young woman standing at the bus stop, waiting for the bus to come. There were several buses coming, but none of them seemed to be the one the woman was waiting for, and the woman looked blankly at the approaching bus, not even twitching.

Until I started taking a smartphone with Google Maps, it was very difficult to take a local bus when traveling. It was very difficult to take a local bus in Japan, and even more so in a foreign country. First of all, you don't know if there is a bus heading to your destination. Even if you know there is a bus, you don't know where the bus stop is, and it is difficult to determine which bus to take. You have to rely on kind local people to tell you where to get off after you get on the bus.

Google Maps has solved this problem of using local buses in one fell swoop. It tells me where the bus stops are, which bus to take, and where to get off. How convenient! In Taiwan, destinations are written in Chinese characters, so it is even easier to understand. I have become a regular user of the local bus service. There is only one thing that Google Maps does not tell me. Even if I make full use of Google Maps, it still doesn't tell me how to pay the fare.

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