It's to the west of some places...but I think I get what you mean.

[After all, the name Makoto did sound vaguely Eastern to him, not that he knew of anyone personally from that part of the world.]

I've bumped into a few people before the rain set in. Since then I've mostly been sticking to exploring the building itself. Granted, a lot of those people had also just gotten here so they didn't have much new information to offer.