Japan Travel Essential

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Use Public Phones in Japan
1. You need to use prepaid magnetic telephone cards (you can buy them at convenience stores or vending machines) or 10yen/100yen coins. 2. Pick up the phone and insert a telephone card into the slot or insert coins. 3. Dial the number you want. 4. When you are using a telephone card, the phone indicates how much value is remaining. 5. When you have almost used up the card value or coins, the phone beeps. Add another telephone card or more coins 6. When you hang up, the telephone card will come out and extra coins are given back. IF YOU WANT TO USE YOUR CREDIT CARD. DO THE FOLLOWING:
1. Use any phone.
2. Pick up the phone and dial 0055. (If you are using green phones, you need to insert coins or a magnetic telephone card to begin.)
3. Enter your card number and the pin number, then dial the number you want to call.
4. If you want to make a collect call or operator call, pick up any phone and dial 0051. (If you are using green phones, you need to insert coins or a magnetic telephone card to begin.)
Tips: You can make international calls from the tall gray phones and tall green phones with gold faces, using coins or magnetic phone cards. Some phones accept only magnetic telephone cards, some take only coins, and some accept both. Find out which type it is by looking for coin inserts and card inserts. Domestic calls are cheaper in the early morning, late night, and weekends. Phone fee are expensive in Japan, so save your money by choosing the right time

Peak Travel Seasons
Try to avoid travelling during the traditional holiday seasons listed below. Transportation and accommodation are always heavily booked over these periods as Japanese travellers visit friends and family across the country. Sometimes many shops and businesses are also closed, specially during the New YEAR....If you cannot adjust your schedule, be sure to make your arrangements well in advance New Year Holiday Season December 27-January 4 and the adjacent weekends "Golden Week" Holiday Season April 29-May 5 and the adjacent weekends "Bon" Festival Season A week centering around August 15 Public Holidays Japan has 13 public holidays. When one of them falls on a Sunday, it is reported to the following Monday. 1 January - (New Year's Day) Second Monday of January - (Adult's Day) 11 February - (National Foundation Day) 21 March (approx.) - (Vernal Equinox Day) 29 April - (Green Day) 3 May - (Constitution Day) 5 May - (Children's Day) 15 September - (Respect-for-the-Aged Day) 22 September (approx.) - (Autumnal Equinox Day) 10 October - (Sports Day) 3 November - (Culture Day) 23 November - (Labour Thanksgiving Day) 23 December - (Emperor's Birthday)

Eating Out
When in Japan many restaurants these days will have English menus, but be assured, you will come across some that don't. The good thing about many of the cheaper places travellers choose to eat is their window displays. Many restaurants have fake plastic food displayed in their window. You can remember the characters of the dish you wish to eat and then point to it on the menu, or take the waiter out to the display window and simply point to what you want to eat. These window displays can come in quite handy. You can pick-up your own plastic food in Kappabashi Tokyo.

Luggage

Because most train stations in Japan often have lots of stairs and few if any elevators or escalators, and because some flights will not have jet ways, I find it's best to travel as light as you can get away with. If you have to bring along lots of stuff, you absolutely must have a suitcase with rollers on it, or a rollable luggage cart.
If you plan to make short side trips within Japan, it may make sense to bring a smaller soft suitcase and use that for your side trips. As long as you have a reservation at the hotel when you return from your side trip, the hotel will store your luggage for you.
Both the N'EX and Haruka lines have ample storage space for luggage, even for large suitcases or golf bags. The shinkansen, however, does not have much storage space, except in the split-level green cars.Long-distance, cross-country luggage delivery service is available, but it will take at least one day for the luggage to be delivered.