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from / to the Airport Tokyo
61 Reviews On arriving at Narita Airport we took the Limo bus into town to avoid the trains at rush hour...and we're glad we did, the bus took just 45 minutes to our hotel. It dropped us literally at the door....
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City Buses Kyoto
40 Reviews Kyoto City Bus is quite convinient for most of the touristic sites. 220 Yen, longer distances are more (these longer distance buses have black numbers). Ypu can get a One Day Pass for 500 Yen (for...
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train Osaka
25 Reviews Kansai Thru Pass (Suruttu Kansai magnetic card) is a exzellent Pass if you travel between Osaka, Kyoto, Nara, Koyasan, Kobe, Himeji... 2 or 3 day's (don't have to Be consecutive), 3800 and 5000 Yen,...
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Travel Within Hiroshima Hiroshima
14 Reviews In Hiroshima there are plenty of trains to move around in Hiroshima. The trains don't go everywhere, but they get you closer to a number of destinations. We paid 150 yen each one way to get to our...
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Getting To Okayama Okayama
6 Reviews Many people use the Shinkansen to get to Okayama. It's certain fast and convenient, and for many travellers, the Shinkansen itself is on their list of things to experience in Japan. If however, you...
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Getting Around the City : General Info Tokyo
34 Reviews The Toden Arakawa line doesn't really connect any notable places, but it is the only tram line in Tokyo, and so makes for an interesting trip if you get the chance, meandering through areas of Tokyo...
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Shinkansen Kyoto
25 Reviews When booking a Shinkansen to/from Kyoto and Tokyo, might be good if you can specify which side seats you would prefer when making seats reservation at any JR station. When I boarded the Shinkansen...
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subway & busses Osaka
36 Reviews These vending mashines let you select you ticket only after you put your money in, subway allows you to switch to english, Train only in japanese, but you need only to put in the fare price (somewhere...
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Getting To Hiroshima Hiroshima
11 Reviews Hiroshima is an important port with ferry connections to other cities and even to South Korea (where we came from). We also took the ferry to Matsuyama on Shikoku which costs Y 2600 and takes 2 3/4...
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Travel Within Okayama Okayama
5 Reviews The trams in Okayama start just outside of Okayama Station (across the street at the start of Momotaro Odori, the main street). There are two lines, one which ends at Higashiyama and the other ends at...
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Waterbus & Ferry Tokyo
11 Reviews The famous tokyo waterbus that takes you to Asakusa and back. The Assorted cruising boats owned by a company called suijobus takes persons on a 40 minute ride from Hinode Pier (its a 7 minute walk...
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Trains Kyoto
23 Reviews There are a couple of ways to go to Kyoto from KIX. There's the Limousine Bus, the taxi and our recommended choice --- Haruka airport express which is 75 mins and costs normally at 2980 for unreserved...
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taxi / car Osaka
6 Reviews I found the Cartrafic in Osaka and other places of Japan not extremely bad and I also dont remember any trafic-jam. Something that is quite confusing for any tourists are the inscriptions mostly...
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Flying into / out of Tokyo Tokyo
31 Reviews this is the main gateway to the tokyo and the kanto plain area of japan, the other one is the haneda airport but it caters mostly domestic flights and flights to korea and china. The Arrival Area of...
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Taxis Kyoto
8 Reviews * Since May 17, 2002 the Shinpuhkan is also operating the new Velo Taxi - bicycle taxis imported from and based on those running in Berlin. No Velo taxis run during February and March otherwise they...
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airport to city Osaka
6 Reviews The Haruka is an express train that will take you to Kansai international airport in 50 minutes. It's fast, comfortable and relatively inexpensive. It departs from Shin Osaka station. There are other...
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Rail > Metro / Subway Tokyo
68 Reviews Ok, the first thing that freaks you out about Tokyo is it size and the confusing maps of all the trains... but once you do it, you realize it's a simple as any other train system around the world......
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Subway Kyoto
15 Reviews The subway is very modern and convenient. Having a sightseeing day pass let you go all over town very quickly and visit the different landmarks scatered around town. Otherwise, you will always have to...
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public transport maps Osaka
3 Reviews MAP OF OSAKA SUBWAY: Click Here MAP OF OSAKA PUBLIC TRANSPORT: Click Here OSAKA KANSAI INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT Click Here JAPAN SHINKANSEN MAP: <A HREF='http://jin.jcic.
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Rail > Rail Passes / Reduced Fare Tickets Tokyo
14 Reviews JR Pass is a special arrangement for tourists visiting Japan. With JR Pass you will be able to use Japan Rail ordinary trains as well as Shinkansen. Shinkansen also known as bullet trains provide...
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Highway Bus Kyoto
4 Reviews Most short-stay visitors will use the trains, but those looking to save money, especially on long-distance travel, can do so by taking a highway bus! Because it is such a popular destination, buses...
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airplanes & airports Osaka
17 Reviews the "West" region of Japan known as Kansai is the alta-ego of its Eastern counterpart : Tokyo . and a Japan being an isLand w/ Limited LandMass they have conjured the technology 2 build artificiaL...
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Rail > Getting into / out of Tokyo by Train Tokyo
41 Reviews A great deal is available if you take the NEX from Narita airport into Tokyo. You get a Suica card preloaded with Y1500 (almost free) when you buy your NEX ticket at the JR office in the airport...
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Rickshaws Kyoto
6 Reviews Riksha's are available in some places but not that common, maybe more in the torist area's temples and small streets I saw those which can be somehow nice adventure for a short ride. However, it was...
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Road > Taxi & Bus Tokyo
34 Reviews There are no street addresses in Japan, so if you are traveling by taxi, you have to describe to the cabbie more or less where you want to go. (Our apartment, for example, might be described as...
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Hi guys,I read your conversation about Ogasawara Ilands...so I would like to go on...My question is...Do you know in wich days the ferry boat leaves from Tokyo to Chichi-jima?Do you know also in wich days the ferry boat leaves from Chichi-jima to Tokyo?Thanks in advanceP.S. Your question will be very useful for my Japan Trip
Shinkansen - Japan in a nutshell- High Tech - Precision - Respect -Choosing the Shinkansen to get around in Japan is a true experience. In just one trip one get a taste of 'the Japanese Way' - technology, precision and respect. Bullet Trains got a maximum speed of 186mph, something that is to be increased in the next 5 years. 300 trains operate daily and swooshes 130 million passengers around the country. Quite impressive.With the Japanese Rail Pass one never needs to worrying about booking tickets. At least 2-3 carts om each train are for passengers with no seat reservation. Just look at the ground or screens and you'll soon find your seat. On the ground where the trains stops a notice will tell you which cart will stop here - reserved seats or not - smoking or non-smoking. So in Japan one never need to stand around and wonder where one's seat will be. The bullet trains follow same...
Many flights from the USA to Asia has connections at Narita. You do not go through immigration or customs. if you are changing airlines, then there may be a terminal change..if you are coming in on United and continuing on United no problem at all, but if you are coming in on United and leaving on Northwest, there may be a change of terminals. you will not leave the terminals and usually the connecting flights are within 2 to 3 hours. it is a very easy airport to transit and the workers there are extremely polite and helpful. This last time I transited through Narita, I changed from Northwest from Singapore to American to Dallas and beyond. When i got to Narita, there was a Northwest Employee with my name on a card and she walked me through the security to the bus that leaves for the other terminal ( Terminals 1 and 2), and everything went smoothly.
When going to Japan a lot of people have only heard of the JR Pass and seem to think this is always the best option to get around when it comes to saving money. However I have found that when travelling between Tokyo and other major cities the nightbus was a much cheaper option. It was also good in some other ways. One saves the cost for one nights accomodation. One gets more time to see the country since one is travelling at night and arrive rested in the morning ready to explore :) It is best to but tickets in advance. Some routes are very popular. Tickets are often sold at the local trainstation or from where the bus departs. One can easily save 20% - 50% instead of goin by train. For anyone interested in the highway buses this is good site to start:http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2366.htmlA quote from the site: "On major routes, such as the Tokyo - Nagoya - Kyoto - Osaka route, fierce...
It is very easy to get to Mount Koya from Osaka. The Nankai Electric Railway makes 4 round trips a day by Limited Express, and runs Express trains at about 30-min intervals between Osaka Namba Station and Kôyasan Station. It takes 1 hr 40 min by Limited Express, and around 2 hours by Express. Same goes for getting to Mt Koya from Kyoto - just add another 30min (approx) to you travel time. JR Pass is valid if you take JR Trains to Mt Koya however they cannot be used on the ropeway that takes you up to the mountain itself. There is an excellent website on Koyasan, see below.
Finding an address in Tokyo can be a problem even for taxi drivers, because of the way many small streets are not named and houses are numbered but not necessarily sequentially.If possible, come armed with a map and phone number for your destination. We gave our driver the address of the inn we were going to, in Japanese, but he didn't know where to take us and in the end he phoned the inn and got directions from them.
If you do not have a rail pass, student ID or other way to get any standard discount train tickets, you should consider buying bulk tickets.If you purchase a block of four tickets, for any leg of travel, JR will give you a bulk purchase discount.For example, go to the ticket window (“Midorino Madoguchi”) and ask for "Hakata Kokura Tokkyu Yon-mai kippu". This will give you four tickets for the segments between Hakata and Kokura. If you are traveling round trip, with a friend, this gets all your tickets at one time with a ~20% savings.-this tip compliments of personal advise given by other VT'er Masa (gogonicetrip).
If you're going to travel throughout Japan I highly recommend a Bullet train pass. They have to be bought outside the country and will end up saving you a lot of cash. Also when booking hotels there is a JTB service which I would recommend as many times I'd show up at hotels and request a room and they were always full. I'd step outside and phone the JTB and they would be able to book the same hotel no problem.
This is something to bear in mind before traveling to Japan, because is one of the best bargains!It is available to foreign tourists (but not for foreign residents of Japan). The pass lets you use any JR service for 7 days for Y28,300, 14 days for Y45,100 or 21 days for Y57,700. The pass cannot use with the new brand train NOZOMI but there are other Shinkasen trains. In other to get this JR pass, you need to apply an “exchange order” outside Japan at JAL offices or major travel agencies. Once you arrive in Japan, and you want to validate this pass, you need to go to a JR office (in the airports, train stations or Tourist Information Centers) with this exchange order (that you have previously paid in your country) plus your valid passport. The JR pass can only be used by a temporary visitor visa, and it start whenever you validate it.For further information about it, please, check:...
I did a travel with the bullittrain, is a fast train, one of the first in the world.I traveled from Osaka to Tokyo with this train it is a distance from appr. 500km. It takes, in that time that I was there, 3 hours.But I heard that they where busy to make a train for 500km/H ????? 1 HOUR (eheh) What was also suprised to me was the dissiplined way of the people, they standing in line on the platforms, nobody will try to go first, everyone is waiting his turn to step in??????The same in the big citys with the metro, also the train/metro stops exact at the same spot.?????We in Holland can learn a lot of them.......
Park Hyatt Tokyo Tokyo
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Hotel Granvia Kyoto Kyoto
6 Reviews and 743 Opinions We stayed 3 nights at Kyoto Granvia Hotel from Feb. 27 to Mar 1, 2008. We paid Yen 17,600 per night,...
The Ritz-Carlton Osaka Osaka
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Q: Hi there, Will arrive in Tokyo, Narit Airport for a layover and wanted to take advantage of seeing something. I will arrive at...
A: youre lucky to be arriving so early, so you will likely pass through immigration fairly quickly. lets still count with an hour just in case. you can either take the...
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