#29

Are the machines easy to navigate?

#30

We ended up buying a lot of our tickets (Ghibli museum, train tickets etc) in person from the little Japan tourist office in Liberty’s department store.

You can do it over the phone via there as well, if you can’t make it to London.

#31

Yeah unfortunately I’m crisscrossing Austria going to rural locations 6 weeks before the trip and was broke over Xmas. Got to go to the one travel agency that sells Japanese Rail Passes in Austria when I’m in Vienna next week because I can’t reliably get things posted to me.

#32

Can’t you get the pass posted to the hotel you’re staying at in Japan?

#33

No because I fly via Osaka, stay there overnight in a cheap place I wouldn’t really trust to receive it, then go to Tokyo the next morning.

#34

It gets a bit complicated, because some of them need a Japanese mobile phone number, but they are straightforward IF (and this is where it gets even more complicated) you have the code (like an old videoplus+ number) from one of the listings magazines.

Shop staff are very helpful though, if you take a few screenshot of what you are after (not many people, especially men, speak good enough English to understand fully what you’ll be after)

This sums it up better than I can:

FAO people who have been to Japan (travel tips)
#35

Thank you

#36

so jelly of you all going to japan. think i might start trying to learn a bit of the language, just for something to do.

#37

Does watching the start/end of Frasier count? :smile:

#38

???

(body seems unclear, fuck off sean)

#39

At the start/end of each episode of Frasier the sponsor (think it’s a yogurt) teaches you the Japanese for hello, goodbye etc

#40

hahah oh yeah. japanese isn’t on duolingo but there’s a thing called human japanese i downloaded a trial for. will see how it goes.

#41

I’d stay on miyajima overnight rather than 2 nights in Hiroshima

#42

If I can get my cousins to babysit then I could maybe come along to it

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#43

Going to Tokyo in December on my way to NZ I think.

#44

PM me if anyone wants help getting tickets and needs someone here with a Japanese address/access to a convenience store.

#45

I’m going there in November. Got about 10 days to spend in the Osaka / Kyoto / Tokyo region.

Any of you FOOLS got any suggestions as to what someone like me should do while I’m there?

#46

just soak it up man

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#47

oh yeah, definitely go to Nara

#48

The place with the deer? Will do!