It doesn't seem anyone has an authoritative answer on cell phones in Japan. Zine looked in Thai and I searched in English for how cell phones work, where we could get one and how much it would cost. No one seemed to know. Luckily a friend of ours has been studying Japanese language in Fukuoka and has a...
Knowing that we've got a few longer leg trips and being as money is more of a concern then speed and being as were in Japan during the spring, we thought we’d try the Seishun 18 train ticket. It’s a special promotion that’s run three times per year. One ticket costs 11,500 yen and allows travel for five...
Since we're trying to make this trip as cheap as possible we flew Air Asia. The tickets were 13,395 baht per person from Bangkok to Osaka. Of course Air Asia being a budget airline we paid extra for luggage, food and seat selection, bringing the total cost to 16,750 baht. Still a better deal than the full service...
My biggest concern going to Japan during the spring is the temperature difference between there and Thailand. Bangkok is about 32 ºC (90 ºF) year-a-round and a comfortable temperature for me. Japan is about 10-15 ºC (50-59 ºF) in the spring and a very unpleasant temperature for me.When I lived in the US, I had winter coats, scarfs,...
Signing up with WWOOFJapan.com is an exersise in blind faith. They have no person behind the website as I can tell, no blog and no attempt to comfort someone parting with $60 (which I think is a bit steep, but that’s another post). Reading that others have gone through the sign-up process and stayed on farms, I felt if...
