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General Category => Discontempt => Topic started by: mosh on April 27, 2009, 08:47:27 PM

Title: Things not to forget
Post by: mosh on April 27, 2009, 08:47:27 PM: Cash/credit card.

JR rail pass, I'll post details where these can be obtained in the US.

Renting a phone.

Meeting point. Who'se getting into Japan first? Is it me?
Title: Re: Things not to forget
Post by: mosh on April 27, 2009, 08:53:55 PM: JR rail passes can be bought at these establisments in the US:
Kintetsu International Express (U.S.A.) Inc. New York 1325 Avenue of the Americas, Suite 2002 New York, NY 10019 U.S.A. TEL (800) 422-3481
FAX (212) 259-9705

JALPAK (JTB GLOBAL TRAVEL INC.) Houston Office 4900 Woodway Dr., Suite 510, Houston , TX 77056 TEL +1 800 776 5575
FAX +1 713 658 1932

JALPAK (JTB GLOBAL TRAVEL INC.) Miami Office 6505 Blue Lagoon Drive, Suite 105 , Miami , FL 33126 TEL +1 800 343 7173
FAX +1 305 269 3013

I strongly recommend buying one of these, it'll cost around US$300, but it'll pay for itself for train travel in Japan.
Title: Re: Things not to forget
Post by: tricky on April 27, 2009, 08:54:52 PM: Passport. Christ on a crutch if I forget that I'm retarded.

Digital camera.

Are electrical outlets in Japan different then the ones in the US? Do I need to get some sort of converter thingamabob?

Rapex, at least two.

p.s. thanks for that info Mosh!

Do I need to get money converted in the US? Will they take my regular old Mastercard in Japan?

Excuse me if I ask a lot of dumb questions. I don't know any better. The furthest I've traveled is Costa Rica.
Title: Re: Things not to forget
Post by: FAH-Q on April 27, 2009, 09:06:11 PM: Quote from: tricky on April 27, 2009, 08:54:52 PM
Excuse me if I ask a lot of dumb questions. I don't know any better. The furthest I've traveled is Costa Rica.

Did a guy pay for your CR trip? Did you ditch him and fuck some other dude(s)?
Title: Re: Things not to forget
Post by: tricky on April 27, 2009, 09:07:21 PM: That was a family trip. I was 15, gimme a break. :P
Title: Re: Things not to forget
Post by: FAH-Q on April 27, 2009, 09:08:00 PM: I think you may've missed my reference!
Title: Re: Things not to forget
Post by: tricky on April 27, 2009, 09:08:39 PM: I... did... please refresh my memory?

Did Manda fuck another dude?
Title: Re: Things not to forget
Post by: FAH-Q on April 27, 2009, 09:12:42 PM: Hopefully!

But no, this is a reference to someone else. Someone very near and dear to you.
Title: Re: Things not to forget
Post by: mosh on April 27, 2009, 09:31:10 PM: It was a bagman reference...

And Si, what you doing in here????

Brook, US appliances should work fine in japan, I think the outlets and plugs are the same, and the voltage definately is.

Mastercard will work in Japan for purchases, but the only places you can withdraw cash are at Post Office ATM's or Foreign bank ATM's (Citibank or BoA, etc...). Buy a couple hundred dollars worth of Japanese cash at your departing airport, just to be safe.

The rapex is to stop Dave, right?
Title: Re: Things not to forget
Post by: FAH-Q on April 27, 2009, 09:37:23 PM: Quote from: Mosh on April 27, 2009, 09:31:10 PM
And Si, what you doing in here????

Travelling vicariously through you lot?

Nah, truth of the matter is that I'm kinda OCD and therefore the idea of just not reading a forum on this board is a little scary.
Title: Re: Things not to forget
Post by: psychopathetic on April 27, 2009, 09:39:04 PM: Quote from: FAH-Q on April 27, 2009, 09:37:23 PM
Nah, truth of the matter is that I'm kinda OCD and therefore the idea of just not reading a forum on this board is a little scary.

Also me.
Title: Re: Things not to forget
Post by: taiko on April 27, 2009, 10:10:05 PM: Quote from: Mosh on April 27, 2009, 08:47:27 PM
Meeting point. Who'se getting into Japan first? Is it me?
We haven't actually bought our tickets yet, but I think the plan was to arrive around 2pm or so.
Title: Re: Things not to forget
Post by: mosh on April 27, 2009, 10:14:04 PM: OK, if thats the case, I arrive first. I'll come back out to meet you fuckers.
Title: Re: Things not to forget
Post by: taiko on April 27, 2009, 10:23:03 PM: please read the other thread which contains the plan, and recommend adjustments THERE.
Title: Re: Things not to forget
Post by: underclass on April 28, 2009, 12:26:07 AM: Lol - so much for the Japan forum so we could keep our shit out of other people's view.

Tricky: Bring 30,000 yen cash, for everything else, there's mastercard. Just don't make Kyle's assumption that US banks with no presence in Japan would have ATMs everywhere...
Title: Re: Things not to forget
Post by: Doormouse on April 28, 2009, 12:37:49 AM: Quote from: FAH-Q on April 27, 2009, 09:37:23 PM
Travelling vicariously through you lot?

Quote from: underclass on April 28, 2009, 12:26:07 AM
Lol - so much for the Japan forum so we could keep our shit out of other people's view.
No.
Title: Re: Things not to forget
Post by: underclass on April 28, 2009, 12:41:18 AM: The goal was two-fold:

1. Not be annoying like the RT people and make people who can't make the trip have to read all our stuff
2. Avoid me having the same conversation multiple times with multiple people

I guess #2 is going to work... but I'd forgotten we have more mods than members
Title: Re: Things not to forget
Post by: Doormouse on April 28, 2009, 12:43:43 AM: I'll try not to spam up the board, but I hate being cut out of any part of any board.
Title: Re: Things not to forget
Post by: underclass on April 28, 2009, 12:46:46 AM: Well.. it's April now. Can you rustle up 2 grand by November?
Title: Re: Things not to forget
Post by: Doormouse on April 28, 2009, 12:51:34 AM: Haha no. I wish man. I'm some double-digit thou in the hole these days. I live on loans.

...I bet Japan is beautiful in November.
Title: Re: Things not to forget
Post by: mosh on April 28, 2009, 01:38:44 AM: Quote from: Doormouse on April 28, 2009, 12:43:43 AM
I'll try not to spam up the board, but I hate being cut out of any part of any board.

I wont mention the secret forum....

yes it does exist.

Quote from: eitje on April 27, 2009, 10:23:03 PM
please read the other thread which contains the plan, and recommend adjustments THERE.

Considering this thread existed first, I dont think it was innappropriate.
Title: Re: Things not to forget
Post by: mosh on April 28, 2009, 01:39:38 AM: Oh the other thing was I wasnt able to keep the other mods out... everyone else however cannot see this board.
Title: Re: Things not to forget
Post by: bagman on April 29, 2009, 04:48:24 AM: Quote from: FAH-Q on April 27, 2009, 09:06:11 PM
Quote from: tricky on April 27, 2009, 08:54:52 PM
Excuse me if I ask a lot of dumb questions. I don't know any better. The furthest I've traveled is Costa Rica.

Did a guy pay for your CR trip? Did you ditch him and fuck some other dude(s)?

Low blow.
Title: Re: Things not to forget
Post by: mosh on April 29, 2009, 05:08:34 AM: I knew there was something we should have cleaned up first...
Title: Re: Things not to forget
Post by: tricky on April 29, 2009, 03:45:04 PM: On a random website it says that often times the bathrooms don't have toilet paper; true or false?

Also it says that all the toilets are actually holes in the floors; true or false?

I guess I'll be wearing a lot of skirts...
Title: Re: Things not to forget
Post by: mosh on April 29, 2009, 05:53:36 PM: not true

true

goody!
Title: Re: Things not to forget
Post by: underclass on April 29, 2009, 07:54:17 PM: 1. Train stations and public toilets -> True
2. True -> In older places. Women normally carry around a couple of small packs of tissues.

However, there are convenience stores (such as 7/11) on just about every corner and they almost always have a western bathroom. Same with department stores and the suchlike. Hotels and modern shops will be western.