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Hey guys it's Kim Dao right here welcome back to my channel in today's video
I'm going to be telling you guys 10 Japan travel hacks that will make your travel to Japan a lot easier
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Wi-Fi these days wi-Fi. It is very important to everyone. Let's face it. I'm pretty sure a lot of you guys cannot survive Wi-Fi
I'm one of those people too, and yes, I do know it is bad to be so dependent on internet, but
It's just how it is these days the first time I went to Japan about five years ago
I had this mindset that all Japan is a land of technology right? They must be free wi-Fi everywhere
Wrong but , then there was no free Wi-Fi in Japan
It was so hard to contact people navigating around the country it was
Very difficult back in the day luckily these days there are pieces where you can get free Wi-Fi
But will it be more convenient has wi-fi it's everywhere you go
That is why you should get your own wi-Fi by getting a pocket WIFI or a sim card
I'm going to be talking about both of these so you guys can pick whichever one is more convenient for you first off are going
To be talking about the pocket Wi-Fi, so the pocket Wi-Fi
got really popular a couple of years ago the second time
I went to Japan I rent a pocket wi-Fi, and it made my life so much easier
I was able to look at Maps
I was able to search up places where I wanted to go when I wasn't at home
I was able to contact my friends. It was amazing now typically pocket
Wi-Fi if you have to get them before you come to Japan
So if you just google up pocket Wi-Fi Japan rentals something like that there are many companies that will rent out a top of Wi-Fi
To use now keep in [mind]. They aren't exactly cheap
so if I can remember correctly for one month
I would pay about maybe $100 for a pocket wi-Fi device now the good thing about the pocket Wi-Fi device
Is that it is very fast internet you can connect your phone you can connect your laptop and you can do your work?
inconvenient thing about this is that you have charge it
So you have to carry around something extra in your bag which is a bit annoying when you're traveling especially?
And you also have to keep an eye out on the battery
so when your battery dies
You won't have wi-Fi and you have to charge it and these days your phone's eyes really quickly right and also if you're travelling in
A big group of people and everyone's connected to this wi-Fi, and you guys [will] separate who's going to keep the Wi-Fi device
but if you're traveling [by] [yourself], and you use [your] computer
I would definitely recommend you get the Wi-Fi device now
There are SIM cards , SIM cards recently became super popular in Japan for tourists you can buy them very easily when you come to Japan
So you can even get them at the airport, but I recommend you go to a big camera , a Yamada Denki
one of the big electronics shops? They would definitely have SIM cards now these SIM cards
Don't come with phone numbers
You can't get a phone number in Japan unless if u live here, but in the darkest in cars
Which is exactly what you need now these SIM
cards aren't exactly cheap as well compared to I guess other countries so you can get about I think five gigabytes for about
$30 and it only lasts for a [certain] amount of time it depends on how long [you] buy for you can buy it for one
[week] two weeks, or one month these sim card. Just put them into your phones, and you have to do some set up
So you need some wi-Fi to set it up and voila
You've got internet now some cars are more convenient if you're doing in and laptop
You just have to put it in your phone and and you've got wi-fi everywhere you go so you don't have to carry it around
a pocket wifi device . There is a dose limit . Oh, so that's a downside whereas the pocket Wi-Fi usually
There's no limit so you can use as much internet as you want number two getting a JR
Pass a lot of people [ask] me if they should get a Jr
Puff or not when they travel to Japan
and I can't really answer that for you because that's something you should try and
Figure out yourself because I don't know where you are going to travel to in Japan, but anyway the Jl
Pass is a part of many people and tourist visas are able to get it isn't cheap
It's about 300 dollars for one week, but that means you can ride as manyJR
trains as you want for the whole week including bullet trains except the fastest one which is nozomi
You can use the JR pass to travel to different cities in Japan for example
You can go from tokyo to Osaka down in Hiroshima , and it saves you a lot of money because a one-way ticket
From tokyo to Osaka is about
150 Dollars
so if you think [about] it this way if you're going from Tokyo to Osaka
[down to Hiroshima traveling around that area then you go back to tokyo
[that] would be worth it because if you calculator or a JR pass is
Cheaper than paying for the ticket separately it is a very good path that has if you've had to travel all around Japan because it
Will save you a lot of money [number] [three] thinking about [all] [the] travel stuff
I want to tell you guys the site called audio JP
Now you guys may have known Odigo because I traveled with them last year, but recently they have rebadged our whole website
So it is completely different now
[so] the website allows you to plan [your] trips to Japan
And it makes your life so much easier [suppose] over there are a lot [of] people that want to travel to Japan
But don't know much about Japan and it's fun because this website makes everything easier for you by giving you suggestions
[so] you just put in data when you plan to travel?
Where you plan to travel?
And in which all you guys suggestions
Or where you can go in Japan and how to get around which makes your life so much easier
One huge change in audio, which I really like is that you [can] book your whole entire trip using this website
You can now book your flight your accommodation [rest] a car. You can book activities
You can book tours everything can be done on this one website [so] as you can see the website has improved a lot
Now one thing [about] this website
that's really new they are trying to make a more community base which means you guys going to be a
Contributor [to] the website and then you can get paid for making
articles about Japan you can share your
Experiences in Japan you can give tips on traveling you can give tips [on] where to shop what takes you must do when you are
In Japan things you must eat in Japan the [celeron] is much more like a community now
And I'm also going to be making a lot of blog posts
About traveling to Japan so make sure you follow me on Odigo
Which I'll link that down below as well
and a great thing is is that [if] [you] make [sloth] post always be contribute to the
Community your own points which turns into money so you actually get paid for the stuff that you do so I need to get paid
to travel to Japan you don't know what to do and
You [are] stuck on how to plan your trip then definitely check out the odigo website, or if you have already being in Japan
and want to help other [alt ]
Then make sure you sign up and then try and make some blog [posts] just to help other people out and number four trade apps
You can use in Japan [so] you guys probably know that trades are kind of crazy Japan
There are so many different train lines
And it is very confusing like I mean look at this when I first came to Japan [boy]. I was confused
I did not know what I was doing luckily now because [of] train apps. They do make things a lot more easier
There are many apps in English that you can use if you just type in Japan travel or Japan trains
Just only one of those apps and then put where you want to go and where you're coming [from] and it just makes things
So much easier. It will tell you exactly what transient to take What characters. to make
It is very confusing at the start, but once you get used to it
It's just a lot easier a lot of you guys already probably know this but you can [use] Google maps
And I find Google maps is a lot easier if you're putting in landmark for example
[I'm] [staying] in a zen B&B in the [Sukkah sabashi ] right now, and I want to go through the Asakusa sky tree
I've been just parked in Asakusa sky tree, and it tells me I can walk for 39 minutes
Which is probably not what [I] want to do, but it's only a 16 minute train ride
I just have to take one train. It tells me I have to walk [to] the train station. It takes four [minutes] paper train
It's got four thoughts in between and then I have to go to Australia station and from there
I walk so you can just look at the map it tells you exactly where you have to go exactly where the train [spaces] are
It's just very convenient or in English, so it makes things a lot easier for you on the [five] get a train card now
Why should you get a train card?
getting Train card is a lot easier because you don't have the [base] clickers now in Japan especially around
Tokyo to big cities. There are many different train companies
But as [agile] [iron] the tokyo Metro and there are also private lines
Nowadays for example you are traveling from Shinjuku station self sacrifice stations. There is no zero train that takes you from Shinjuku, Filofax
Are you need to make some transfers and the easiest way is to?
Transfer from different [companies] to different companies the fourth airport if you're on a junior line has a by Ji ticket you want to transfer
[to] tokyo Metro you have to enter the [Ji-won]
Go to [tokyo] [Metro], and then you have to buy another ticket
And then here's the way in [lighting]
Certificate is find out how much it costs to buy that ticket?
It does take up some time, but with the train card you just beat yourself up
And then you feed yourself in again when you go to tokyo metro you save a lot of time now these currently can't get at
The airport you can also get them at almost every single train station
It costs 500 yen
And you can also get a refund so when you leave Japan you can get your refunds back when it's cast you want one of
These [cars] then go to one of the ticket machines and you can also present English options
But I really recommend you get one because it just makes your life so much easier
You can use your phone as to see what?
Transfers Disobey, and then just pick [yourself] in and out also if you're too lazy to pay cash
You [can] go to convenience stores and pay using this card as well number six with drawing money
So [Japan] [is] still pretty much a cash society a lot of places still don't accept credit cards or debit cards
So when you travel with your pet I really recommend you carrying a bunch of cash with you usually [what] I do is that I?
Try and bring cash from our own country I convert a little bit and I come here on [my] card and I use my card
To withdraw cash and this can be done very easily if you go to a convenience store at 7-Eleven family mart or losses now
I know that atms and 7-Eleven was the best for a lot of people and family mart is also really good as well
It's also very far enough friendly because they've got English Chinese and Korean most of the time on these machines
and besides convenience stores
You can go to a post office to also withdraw money usually there is a fee when you use a foreign atm
It's about maybe
100 to
300 yen
Depends on the Atm and also you may be charged fees depending on the bank you are with but withdrawing money in Japan has become
very easy And you should really [have] any problems finding [a] convenience store that has an atm in our number seven bring a power board now this
Is especially useful for those [who] live in different countries?
And you guys don't use the same outlet as Japan so almost all my electronics are australian
And they have the australian plug which is different [to] Japan and unfortunately
I forgot to bring my power board and I'm having a hard time tracking all my [electricity] [new] cultures
take your own advice, [but] anyway this airBnb this come with a Japanese power board and
Honestly guys if you are traveling with a lot [of] stuff to charge
You should bring your own power board because you don't have to buy multiple adapters. [I] only have Australia to Japan adapter
Which I use, I have a power board which is [auto] Australian plugs
And I charge all my electronics on there usually it just honestly makes your life easier
and especially if you've got everything in one place
You don't forget charges if you leave them in the bathroom or in a kitchen
Or you know in other rooms even if you kind of use the same plugs that depends probably still
recommended to bring a
Power board
So you can change everything in one area of eight get a car and travel to other places in Japan now if you want to
Travel to the countryside in Japan or the places where not many people go through I?
Highly recommend [get] the car now you can get the car pretty easily in Japan if you have an international license
[I've] never really thought about driving around in Japan myself and to be honest, okay
I'm not the greatest driver out there
[and] the thought about driving in Japan freaked me out because it's a different [country] and they had [different] rules, so yes
It was really scary
But after when I was going on all these trips around the countryside in Japan I realized that
Having a comics been so much easier because imagine this you're in the countryside. There are not that many trains
There are not that many buses you have to take the taxis everywhere. Which is expensive. You've got your luggage with [you]
You're lugging your luggage around in train stations [up] and down stairs
And it's that that was a nightmare hurry part is cheap and easy especially if you're with a bunch of people there one
Just put their money in and it makes your life [so] much easier because you can put your luggage in there
You can go anywhere you want driving around Japan for me. It was very easy
Just because in Japan the drive on the same side of the road as in Australia
Finding many people in the us who have an international license and to drive around Japan [if] you want to go to places with not
Many people go [through] or if you want to go up mountains always want to explore
Then definitely getting a car and going on a road trip would be a lot [of] fun other time heat packs
[I] talked about these in so many videos
And I just have to keep telling you guys because I think they are amazing
now these heat packs are fucking that you only use during winter so you stick them on [your] clothes and they warm up and
Keeping warm throughout the day
I don't know why other countries [bitterly] use these, but I feel that they should because they are amazing
You just [stick] a few on your body, especially if you want to wear cute clothes, and it just gives you whole-body more
But there's me if you're someone I can reach there was cold very well
Then I think that you should try out this because even though it's not as caught in tokyo for example
It's so sauce when you are feeling cold
And you just I'm really in the mood to walk around when it's that freezing and number 10
The last [hack] [didn't] take a photo of the landmark [II] [was] going [to] or where you are going to now this [hackers] probably better
back in the Day
This is what I used to do myself
Back in the day where there was no wi-Fi and smartphones were not seen as well when I was traveling every day
I would have a plan of where to go
I would take a photo on [my] camera or maybe on my flip phone or something like that
[and] then if I get lost, I would show the picture to a random japanese person to ask them to help me
It was just a lot easier than trying to explain [to] them even in our sub internet
We've got Wi-Fi which makes things a lot more easier to do ourselves
Sometimes you just get so lost [or] you just don't know where you are and it's just a lot easier to ask
Someone to help you if you show them a picture of the landmark and where you want to go if you're close by
People will be able to help you out a lot easier that way that is it for this video?
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