Furthermore, eight IC cards from other major cities of Japan can also be used on the trains and buses of Tokyo, including Icoca, Kitaca, Toica, Manaca, Pitapa, Sugoca, Nimoca and Hayakaken. Only on days when you use trains or subways a lot, can it make sense to consider one of ...
The Japan Rail Pass is valid on Hikari and Kodama trains, but requires a supplement fee of 4,960 yen on Nozomi trains. The Tokyo-Osaka Hokuriku Arch Pass is a rail pass that allows holders to travel between Tokyo and Kyoto via Kanazawa, using the Hokuriku Shinkansen. It is not the ...
which is also a national park, has natural scenery such as Japan's oldest cherry blossoms, and is also recognized as a story of Japanese heritage, you can enjoy food culture and activities such as sake and fermentation. You can experience it. We look forward to your visit as the starting ...
One of the biggest challenges can be navigating the languages when VPN streaming. Netflix Japan offers full English settings, but for NicoNico or Abema, you’ll need to plug the URL into Google Translate to get an English version. While not 100% accurate, the translation works usually well e...
The Tokyo Monorail timetable can be foundhere. From Hamatsucho Station, the ride on the JR local train to Tokyo Station will take only 5 minutes, while the journey to Shibuya will take 20 minutes. If you have aJapan Rail Pass(JR Pass), you may use it to cover the ride on the Toky...
We left Japan filled with the sense of moving. We were going to be away from Japan for an extended period of several years, so we rented the house we’d been living in to an acquaintance. We stuffed everything we needed for life abroad into suitcases. This was actually quite difficult ...
Japanese lesbians in Tokyo LGBT pride, 2012. Tokyo Rainbow Pride 2012, photo byLauren Andersonused underCC BY 2.0/resized y optimized. Homosexual behavior has never been illegal in Japan except for seven years, between 1873-1880, in an attempt to approach the Christian morality of the West. ...
Generally high paying and common in Tokyo, but harder to find elsewhere. A lot of entry-level and mid-career IT jobs come up on JobsinJapan.com. Japan has a dire shortage of IT experts to the extent that one of their main contenders, Rakuten, has changed the office language to English...
Tokyo-Yokohama: 3,210 JPY Hakodate-Tokyo: 23,500 JPY To make matters worse, there are very rarely promotions or discounts. And, unless you know Japanese, they are nearly impossible to find. Fortunately, there are other options. Japan also has regular limited express and regional trains. Natur...
Kodama takes 3 hours and 37 minutes to get from Tokyo to Kyoto. This one stops everywhere. Don’t get on this one! If you have a Japan Rail Pass, you can get on the Hikari and the Kodama, but not the Nozomi (you must pay an extra Y4960 to ride the Nozomi with a Japan Rail ...