It is particularly developed and of high quality. The train is the most accessible and practical means of transport in Japan. Before your departure, you can acquire a "Japan Rail Pass" from your travel agency, allowing unlimited displacements.
The subway is fast and punctual, with helpful agents but not easy to use.
Japanese people are used to lining up before entering into a wagon. This courtesy however has a tendency to disappear during peak hours!
Most striking is the cleanness of trains and stations. It is very different from the Parisian subway. On the other hand, the Japanese subway’s cleanness, the comfort and convenience explain the high cost of tickets.
That's useful to know :
- Always keep a map with you, because the subway map isn’t always written in Roman letters.
If you don’t understand anything, you can take the least expensive ticket, then regularize it at the counter as you exit, without penalty.
- At peak hours, some carriages are reserved for women to avoid unwanted promiscuity, especially wandering hands!
- Transport in Japan can serve as an example. Its effective, fast and clean. A problem on the line – in five minutes it is repaired! Just for that, you’ll be sad to come back to France!!!
- On some lines, there are people whose job it is to push passengers into subway cars during peak hours, so that the subway is not delayed, a phobia for Japanese people !
Advertising campaigns make users sensitive to this problem and encourage them to make "Zurekin" that is to use transport outside peak hours.
The subway is fast and punctual, with helpful agents but not easy to use.
Japanese people are used to lining up before entering into a wagon. This courtesy however has a tendency to disappear during peak hours!
Most striking is the cleanness of trains and stations. It is very different from the Parisian subway. On the other hand, the Japanese subway’s cleanness, the comfort and convenience explain the high cost of tickets.
That's useful to know :
- Always keep a map with you, because the subway map isn’t always written in Roman letters.
If you don’t understand anything, you can take the least expensive ticket, then regularize it at the counter as you exit, without penalty.
- At peak hours, some carriages are reserved for women to avoid unwanted promiscuity, especially wandering hands!
- Transport in Japan can serve as an example. Its effective, fast and clean. A problem on the line – in five minutes it is repaired! Just for that, you’ll be sad to come back to France!!!
- On some lines, there are people whose job it is to push passengers into subway cars during peak hours, so that the subway is not delayed, a phobia for Japanese people !
Advertising campaigns make users sensitive to this problem and encourage them to make "Zurekin" that is to use transport outside peak hours.
1 commentaire:
Hello,
My name is Caroline, a british student, and I am very happy to find an european girl who discovered Japan and Japanese culture. I found blogs about Japan made by Japenese people but never by european ones.
Your blog is interesting because it gives a different point of view, a european one, and as you underline in your blog the Japanese culture is very different from our european one.
What draws my attention is that you do not describe history of Japanese culture. You only put the emphasis on elements of everyday Japanese life that particularly leave its mark on you.
Me too, I would like to spend holidays in Tokyo. This is a city by which I'm fascinated. But I am very disappointed by what you explain in your blog because it seems you cannot discover it alone without somebody who speak a minimum of japanese. Is it really true that the subway stations are not written in english ? Is it possible to visit Tokyo with a good english ?
Moreover, I would like to know where did you live when you went to Tokyo. What can you recommend to me because hotels are rather costly ?
Thank you for your blog with so interesting informations.
See you,
Caroline
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