Traveling tips winter in Japan.
1. Decide your places to visit - to plan your transportation ; train passes.
As for us we took 4 types of passes,
a) Yokoso pass - which include Train from Kansai to Namba Station plus one day subway pass - 1500 yen.
b) Kansai Thru Pass - Include most of the train and subway line exclude for JR Line. We used this pass to travel from Osaka to Kobe, Kyoto-Arashiyama, Uji & Nara for 3days - 5300 yen.
c) Osaka Subway pass for a day - 800 yen.
d) Airport pass - from one way subway to Namba Station then to Kansai airport - 1000yen.
2. Coin pouch / mini sling bag!
You'll be needed this. You'll get a lot of coin in return etc 500yen equal to almost rm20. It's a lot! So coins are valuable. You may need a bag to put your train pass as well, trust me I put it pocket and had almost lost it twice. Mini sling bag is good cause easy reachable when you required your card. And you can just put your coin inside it as well. Spend your coins, if you get confuse with the value when paying at counter, just take some and show it to the cashier, they'll help you up #hahaa
.mini sling bag helps a lots.
Currency exchanger here in Malaysia don't except coin as well. So spend it all while you can.
3. Backup phone
During winter get an extra handphone other than iphone. Somehow our iphones kept on switched off and drain off battery in sudden cause it's too cold. It happen to my other friends as well. Luckily I have OPPO as a standby handphone and it works perfectly. #hidupOPPO #nosponsorshipfromOPPO
4. Hyperdia and Japan railway apps
Use Hyperdia for train reference, but make sure you'll download Japan railway apps as well in your phone in case you lose your internet connection - our broadband run out of battery, we figure out our train route manually by referring the apps.
Use Hyperdia for train reference, but make sure you'll download Japan railway apps as well in your phone in case you lose your internet connection - our broadband run out of battery, we figure out our train route manually by referring the apps.
5. Getting on the correct train
If you wasn't sure if you are not the right train, look at the time of arrival on hyperdia for example 15:39 and look at the screen, even though the train arrive early but the time display on the screen will be the expected arrival same as in hyperdia. You are on the right track.
If you are not sure which station you are as well, refer the number of the station!
For example Namba (Nankai) Station are NK01 on Nankai Line (blue) or Nankai Koya Lie (Green), depends on which line of train are you in. The number references are easier to refer and remember.
If you are not sure which station you are as well, refer the number of the station!
For example Namba (Nankai) Station are NK01 on Nankai Line (blue) or Nankai Koya Lie (Green), depends on which line of train are you in. The number references are easier to refer and remember.
5. Use comfy shoes.
They will be a lots of walking and transfer of train which involve a lots of up and down of staircases as well. Keep fit :)
6. Book your accommodation for the whole trip in advance.
No walk in - Japan immigration is quite strict about this. They are paying more attention on this where sometimes you'll required to show them proof of reservation and payment for all your accommodation. Print it out.
7. Buying train ticket
If you somehow need to buy ticket from machine, dang, you'll need hyperdia to figure out the fare to your destination. The system require you to key in the total fare to your location and not your location, and the display of station names are in Japanese - can your read it? hehee.. So use hyperdia to total up your train fare to your destination. If you wanna buy pass, use machine stated 'pass' on it, in the above picture maybe the pink one.
7. Buying train ticket
Have fun on your trip :))
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