Friday, October 5, 2018

Japan Trip Heads Up

Heads up and things I found interesting in Japan.

When you go to restaurants with ordering machines, remember to put money in first before you choose the stuff you want.

Before you go to Japan, check all your transit information ahead of time, it's confusing! We got messed up. We bought this ticket and thought it was for every railway company but it was everything except JR... You may end up spending tons of money on transit.

Make sure you plan a big time slot for transit, it takes forever. Trains are ok fast but then the well known places are usually far away from each other, it may take 30 to an hour or more to get to a destination. Some trains can have many stops. Because of transit time, I missed out a few places that I wanted to go.

When you are at a train station, you have to look carefully at signs. Sometimes it may say #7 for a certain place but then it says "now it's changed to #5". You have to run back downstairs and run upstairs

They will only speak Japanese so just use sign language or simple English words. Some do speak English though but rarely.

If you are a lady and you are going into a fitting room, they will likely to give you a sheet that's almost like those fragranced dryer sheet. It's for you to put over your head so your make up doesn't go onto the clothes you are trying on. I'm sure most girls have seen this before, where you see makeup marks on clothes, yup, gross.

Some places request you to remove your shoes before you enter, I'm sure most people knows about it. Oh, you also have to take off your shoes before you step onto the changing room floor. Get ready for some smelly feet. =P

No need to give tips at restaurants, you can read that online.

The buses, at least in Wakayama, you enter from the back, not the front. We were waiting and thinking why he wasn't opening the door for us to enter lol. And you get off from the front. That was very interesting. The elders still have to get up from the back and walk all the way to the front to sit...

When you pay, put your coins on the tray, I'm so used to just putting it in their hand like we do here. When they give you change back, they will count each one back to you, just keep nodding lol!

When you buy a lot of stuff, they always ask if you want an extra bag. If the bags are pretty or worth keeping, I usually say yes please.

I think most of you know, they love to greet, smile and greet back.

I think that's all?

Typed in May.

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