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Originally Posted by molson
I'm going to Japan next week and did a random search here to see if anyone's ever posted a Japan travel thread. Nope - just thread after thread of massive earthquake and radiation posts. I forgot how ridiculous 2011 was there - 6 over 7.0 and the big one at 9.0.
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Where in Japan are you headed? I've only been to Tokyo a few times. But I lived in in the Kinki area of Kansai (Kobe - Osaka - Kyoto) for nine years. One piece of advice, although it may be too late if you're leaving next week, is to pick up the seishun 19 kippu (the youth 18 ticket). It allows you to ride all the Japan rail trains for a single low price. It used to be about $300. That's about the price of one round trip on the bullet train from Osaka to Tokyo. It can easily pay for itself in a weekend.