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How dumb/screwed am I? I'm staying outside of Nagoya starting on Saturday until March 31st. I was having issues finding the appropriate JR ticket to get me to/from Kyoto and Hiroshima for fairly cheap so I was planning on buying two Tokaido/Sanyo passes at O'Hare since those are the lines I need to get out west. Then I finally found the page for the JR Pass ($380 for 14 days versus $560 for 10). Problem is... I leave in like 36 hours. Should I see if they'll ship the voucher to where I'm staying? How boned am I?
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Mar 11, 2015 19:51
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Radiohead71 posted:I think you are pretty much boned. I live in FL and got my JR Pass voucher FedEx'd from London. It only took a few days, but I don't think you have enough time. I called them and emailed them to no avail. I'm going to be staying with a friend who lives in Japan and they say they can deliver, but I don't know. JAL basically said "welp" on the phone, so I booked a 7 day pass through JTB USA which says "order by 3pm PT" at 5:40PM EDT and chose overnight shipping. If I don't get the pass tomorrow, I can try my luck at the JAL counter in O'Hare and refund the JTB one when I get home. Japan-rail-pass just got back to me, haha. I can ship it to a Japanese address, so that's an option as well. Phone fucked around with this message at 23:28 on Mar 11, 2015 |
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Mar 11, 2015 23:19
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what a good deal:
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Mar 23, 2015 14:02
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I didn't exactly plan out my trip, but basically just book a hotel in the next city over. There were no decent options in Hiroshima, but a ~25min shinkansen ride to Fukuyama put me in the Richmond hotel for way cheaper and way nicer. I'm p bad at vacations.
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Mar 24, 2015 02:04
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Busy Bee posted:How's your Japanese and how often will you be on the bullet trains while you're there? I would highly recommend the Green Class if you can speak conversational Japanese because it is important when receiving the tickets at the reservation counter - Where are you going? Where do you want to sit? Aisle / Window? Do you want to be sitting behind each other or next to each other? What time do you want to go? Which train do you want to get on? I got the Green JR pass and used it on my Hikari trip from Nagoya to Hiroshima. It was really nice and I passed out immediately, but I was stuck on the Kodama and 8-car Hikari for all of my other shinkansen trips, so I didn't really get to use it that much. If you just get the normal JR pass and reserve a seat at the counter, you'll be more than fine. Question time: I'm planning on going back to Japan next year near the end of March/beginning of April. I didn't plan my trip this year which was for half of March, and it bit me in the rear end a bit when I was trying to find hotels after once I was in the country. Is it a good idea to start booking hotels now for March/April 2016? I'm going to be mostly hanging out in Kansai (Osaka/Kobe, etc).
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May 21, 2015 00:44
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I tried booking a hotel 4 days out for both Osaka and Hiroshima, and I wound up in Kobe (wasn't bad, the hotel was kinda awful though) and Fukuyama (owned). I was thinking about trying to get a train out to Tokyo from Fukuyama, and it was not happening. The Kodama from Hiroshima wasn't that bad.
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May 21, 2015 03:09
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Lemmi Caution posted:gently caress yeah!  Sixteenth floor of the Richmond.
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May 21, 2015 03:32
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Eh, booked a flight to Japan for the end of March. I'm flying into Osaka and would like a recommendation for a hotel/AirBnB/whatever in the area. I'm gonna travel around a bit, but my go to hotel has no available rooms for the weekends anywhere near Osaka (Fukuyama? Nagoya? No problem). Thanks! e: I guess I should have said that I was fishing more for "AirBnB won't be impossible with my nonexistent level of Japanese, right?" I see a few places that shouldn't be an issue; I can just send a sim card to my buddy in Kobe and pick it up in the morning. Phone fucked around with this message at 07:59 on Jan 2, 2016 |
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Jan 2, 2016 06:45
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