Bit of trivia I found yesterday (unless Beginners already know about it):
There is an alternative tutorial (2 maps) that contains regular Guide NPC and a few others you can talk to and ask about basics. It looks like it's designed for Beginners with one NPC telling you about switching to normal jobs, but I'm not sure if they can even start here.
To access it, you need to create a new character, but exit the game when it asks you where to start. When you log back in, the character will be created and without a prompt you will enter this tutorial area.
There really is no benefit to this as far as I could tell. Seems like there might've been rewards for completing it that can't be triggered and an NPC that should give you items, but they don't seem to appear.
Other than that, just talk to guide for lv20 and usual gear and use the Driver in the grass map to go to any normal city.