Welcome to Tokyo Tuesday if you're a regular viewer, Welcome Back. today we are talking about how to get around
this crazy city of Tokyo all your options for transportation tickets
passes and maybe even one or two hacks to make things a little better for you I
could do the entire thing right here but you know what let's jump right into a
station boom have come out to Ueno station so let's head inside so if
you've ever seen a Tokyo train station or one of these crazy Tokyo train
station Maps you know how intimidating it can be what for the first time anyway
I'm actually way too used to this so I'm gonna need to find somebody who's not
from Tokyo to help
tourists wait a minute are you sherry from cherry berry and a he-man yes you
asked me to come here and I've been waiting for like five minutes or okay
yeah in case you guys don't know this is sherry from sherry berry in Ehime
and she's come out today to help me with this week's Tokyo Tuesday so let's get
started how did you feel the very first time you ever looked at a full Tokyo
train it is I was really like you know confused and scared
do train passes make it an easier? yeah but I didn't know how to buy the pass so
I was like a little paper ticket for a long time I will teach you today let's
start with how to buy train tickets because that one's pretty easy all you
do is walk up to the machine if you need or want English hit the international
button that's up in the top there select English and then if you know the amounts
for the ticket that you want to buy you just hit that number and you take a pop
so grab your ticket grab your change slide the ticket into
the ticket gate don't forget to collect it on the other side and you're good to
go protip: aside from there being people in
the station that will help you find where to go not in all stations but in a
lot of stations if you do buy a ticket and you don't know how much to pay just
buy the cheapest ticket possible and then come over to one of these fare
adjustment or recharge centers just drop your ticket right in there get your fare
adjusted and you're good to go another important note if you're
transferring transfer gates are orange transfer gates will spit your ticket
back out that way you can use it again I'm not actually transferring I just
wanted to show you guys that let's take a look at how to buy a refillable
commuter pass fill it up for sherry you want to start by finding these machines
right over here now there are special ones over here that
will allow you to buy a Suika or a commuter pass you ready yes
we can barely see the screen but there's gonna go boom hit English where you guys
can read so you got me ticket purchased new Suika and charge obviously right
here this is for monthly passes okay purchase new streak up you can do seek
out where it could be reissued if law I would almost recommend that just to keep
yourself safe and it's personalized so we're gonna advise wake up it's at that
point that you can choose a value and there you go sherry now has her very own
card also if you make a mistake or you want to escape at any point there is a
button right here that will enable you to just cancel and if you slide this
over here and hit one of these buttons a guy's head will come out of here
did you know that no I'm serious sherry does have a question about her Suika
card so we're gonna have push the button
right
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so like you think that the speaker right yep
and a minor travel hack once you have the card if you have a phone that has
like an IC card reader in it you can just transfer it right to your phone
like this now I don't know if you guys notice that but there was a little bit
of a travel hack in there you see at the window
sherry asked if there was be a thousand yen on the card or five hundred yen on
the card what did they tell you five hundred exactly because the card
itself costs you a thousand yen when we transferred your suite get to the phone
how much money was on it one thousand yen you get the full value of your Sega
card if you transfer it to a boat travel hacks with Tokyo they be in addition to
having staff that will help you there are also route finders the little
machine that's actually called a rent finder in the station you can walk up to
one of those you can select English if you need it you can choose your routes
and when you're done you can even print it out
there we go let's say the shabiha because we're in a way no there's two
main routes that we could use to get there we could take the Ginza line which
is a straight line shot and arguably the shortest and fastest option but I want
to take the Yamanote a line because it's above ground I just want to hear some of
those sounds and there we go we're on the train
now I thought maybe we should take a second to talk about this insane and
scary overly intimidating train map that
actually doesn't need to be that intimidating we're gonna break the
trains down into basically three categories do you know what the Train
options are into a few jr jr subway subway which incorporates tokyo metro
and tow a metro thank you thank you you've got the jr trains you have the
subways which is metro and tow a metro and then you've got private lines the
center of Tokyo will be operated mostly by jr. and Metro Metro pretty much be
all underground except for a few stops and stations here and there and the
majority of jr. stuff will be above ground except for a few stops and
stations if you've got yourself something like a jr. pass obviously use
the jr. they also do have day passes so yeah as for this like super disc this
makes it look like a lot worse than it really is
Thank You Terry it is worth mentioning that bicycles are also a viable way of
getting around Tokyo and there tends to be ample bicycle parking but Sheree says
that going around Tokyo on a bicycle kind of freaks are out there is one very
major form of transportation that I'm just gonna glaze over very quickly Tokyo
has no shortage of options for buses the bus routes are absolutely massive but I
can't really advise you on buses because I personally don't really use buses
sorry in fact I try and avoid using public
transportation whenever possible I typically get around Tokyo on either of
my bicycle my motorbike or a skateboard whenever I can just so that I can avoid
these crazy crowded trains it's not that I don't recommend it the public
transportation system here is fantastic whoo I feel like we've talked about so
much already but there's still so much more okay there are so many different
apps to get around Tokyo nowadays Google Maps will actually give you the majority
of the information I could recommend like a few different apps for you but to
be honest I want this video to be a little more timeless and you know in a
year - those apps might all change one of the ones that is popular in Japan if
you can read and write Japanese is Navi time I know we talked about the Suika
and the passes and everything but if you're gonna be in Tokyo for an extended
period of time and you're gonna be repeatedly using the same route I
recommend getting a monthly pass and the monthly passes will allow you to travel
anywhere within that route you choose two stations and a route route however
you want to say it and you can get on and off at any of those stations at no
additional charge those passes aren't cheap though so that's something you
might want to know it's also worth mentioning that there's a special pass
called the station Joo hutch keeper youthful 18 ticket have you ever heard
of that yeah for your sake and for everybody's sake the youthful 18 ticket
is a discounted ticket that you can buy to travel on the jr train lines you can
use it for a period of five days or you can split it for example if you have
five people all five people can use it together for one day and share the cost
but the key to the youthful eighteen ticket is it can't be used or purchased
just at any random time there are specific times that it's sold and they
don't line up perfectly with when it can be used you know what the dates are all
I'll post a link to the website down below that way I'm not like doing this
the whole that covers most of the options for getting around Tokyo using
public transportation there is at least one we haven't covered them
so one thing that Tokyo does have is an abundance of taxis now running a taxis
in as difficult as you might think if you have the address written down or you
just show them on Google Maps nine times out of ten that'll get you where you
need to go if you can read that backwards
basically the first kilometer or so costs you four hundred yen it's about
four bucks and then it goes up after that and the taxi drivers in Tokyo are
generally incredibly friendly really nice so for those of you who want to
practice your Japanese take a taxi train driver won't talk to you an important
point to note about taxis is you can catch one on the street like we did or
you can line up at a taxi no diba which is like a platform for taxis to line up
and pick up passengers there's usually one right outside of each station and
that's also an easy way to catch a taxi one more minor point to note about taxis
if you can avoid it don't call a taxi because not only will you be charged for
the ride but you'll be charged for however far the taxi had to go in order
to pick you up
I learned that lesson the hard way I was up on a mountain and called for a taxi
and by this time the taxi got to me it was already like 12 bucks no do not call
for a taxi when you're in the math state is worth noting that many taxis will
allow you to pay with your Sarika or passport card if you're outside of Tokyo
you most likely cannot use that card ya know people don't know what it is so
yeah those a mom and you probably already know this but the doors open and
close on their own sins were right here anyway this restaurant right here what
is this restaurant the Kill Bill restaurant yes this restaurant right
here is called domme pachi and it is the restaurant that the fight scene from
Kill Bill and the restaurant was based off of sherry me and Sharla and a few
other people went there for my birthday a few years ago
so trains and buses and taxis and everything being all that they are there
is one thing that I'll say there is no substitute for getting around Tokyo on
foot so many people ask where I find some of this hidden spots that I show on
my Tokyo Tuesday's and all that the majority of it just comes from walking
around Tokyo and exploring things so there's no substitute with these right
here and you know now that I come to think about it I don't think I really
explained why Sheri was so essential to this video I reference it at the
beginning but you see I've become so accustomed to just getting around Tokyo
that trying to come up with these ideas I was like I don't know you just you
just go and Sherry's like well you just go doesn't make much of a video now does
it Sheree's been out to Tokyo what five ten
times Sherry hasn't actually been out to Tokyo
that many times and so she was like you know be really nice if you could teach
me how to get around Tokyo so I figured if I'm teaching her why not teach you
guys as well and that's how we ended up here today so I guess that is pretty
much the bulk of today's video now I've asked you guys before I'll ask again if
you enjoyed this if it helps you definitely please share this one okay
your likes mean a lot to me and definitely leave me a comment down below
like what's your favorite train line have you had any trouble getting around
places have you gotten stuck or got lost these are things that I want to know
leave them in the comments below thank you guys so much for joining and we will
see you again for sure next Tuesday
the trains make it so difficult to record here