I was aware of being a nuisance, but I had so much luggage that I thought, "Whatever, it's not like there's anything I can do about it..." Then, at one point, a foreign man who had got on the train near me turned to me and said, "Your luggage is in the way, so please put it on the overhead rack." Foreigners (intended as people who are not Japanese natives) are a small minority even in Tokyo, and almost none of them speak Japanese. This startled response is something I experience every now and then when I "suddenly" talk to Japanese strangers—even if I talk to them in fluent Japanese.