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chezmaxOh dear. I leave for Japan a week from today.
I'm totally not ready.
Well, I have a plane ticket, and a rail ticket, and I know where my passport is.
Things I need to remember to do:
Call Visa/My Bank. Tell them I'll be in a different country, and not to disable my card when charges start showing up from really weird place. Done
Pack.
Make a list of people who want postcards (inform me if you want a postcard: my first name which is at alleged networks... even if you think I have your address, send me an email so it'll be on the list)
Check my power adapters to see if they're 100V compatible.
Look for my travel insurance information and any cards I may need to carry.
Erm... I'm sure I'm forgetting important things.... Any ideas?
I'm totally not ready.
Well, I have a plane ticket, and a rail ticket, and I know where my passport is.
Things I need to remember to do:
Pack.
Make a list of people who want postcards (inform me if you want a postcard: my first name which is at alleged networks... even if you think I have your address, send me an email so it'll be on the list)
Check my power adapters to see if they're 100V compatible.
Look for my travel insurance information and any cards I may need to carry.
Erm... I'm sure I'm forgetting important things.... Any ideas?
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Make a quick kanji cheat sheet with the words for bathroom, man/woman, N/S/E/W, the community name you'll be in and such. All the train stuff is/was in kanji.
Look up where the neat historical stuff is near where you're staying.
Try to make a trip up into the mountains, it is so very different than the plains.
kyoto is worth seeing.
Ride a bullet train :)
Bring back some change, their change is pretty awesome.
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Assuming it actually does work, I should still have limited internet access (and lots of time on trains to read it :P)
The Kanji cheat sheet might be useful, but I don't even know where to start. I had wanted to pull out my Japan 101 books and start going over some introductory nihongo again, but I never quite got that far.
The train is supposedly bilingual. Station names are also in Romaji for convenience of people like me.
I'll be in Osaka, which is a stones throw to Kyoto. Lots of history there.
I'm not sure how much country side I'll be able to see, other then what's out the train windows.
Will see Kyoto.
Will be taking the Shinkansen to Tokyo, and maybe Hiroshima, and some other places, likely. Not going to let the rail pass go to waste!