Saturday, June 21, 2008

How can you travel cheap in Japan



You might be interested in discovering the beauty of Japan. Have you heard that traveling in Japan is very expensive? Well, traveling in Japan is not necessarily expensive. Fortunately, there are cheap ways to enjoy traveling in Japan.

  • Transportation: Japan Railway (JR) provides very cheap tickets that you can use to take JR trains anywhere in Japan. These tickets are called 18 kippu. They are usually sold during vacation (see here). 18 kippu are sold as a set of 5 tickets. You are allowed to share with other people. One 18 kippu costs 2.525 (about 24 $) and you can use it for 24 hours with different JR trains! So convenient. You can plan your trip in advance by using this database of transportation in Japan.
  • Hotel: There are youth hostels (Japanese website, English website) everywhere in Japan. Usually, one night costs around 3000円 (about 29$). Youth hostel is a dormitory, where you share your room with other people. An excellent opportunity to make friends. Women dorms and men dorms are separated in Japan. In some youth hostel you can stay in family rooms, but usually they are more expensive. I personally like staying in youth hostels because they are clean, cheap and offer a friendly environment, like a home!
  • Food: Generally, the managers of youth hotel provide you with sanitary hot water if you ask. Now, you may ask what you can do with hot water. What about having Nescafe with sweets that you brought from home as breakfast? What about having sea food cup noodle as dinner? Moreover, some youth hostel have shared kitchen. So nice, you can cook your dinner and prepare sandwiches or obento for lunch.

Finally, is it safe to travel in Japan? Yes it is! Actually, Japanese are glad to meet foreigners that are interested in their local customs and sightseeing. If you behave politely and respectfully then you receive warm welcome and generous help.

Enjoy your trips :) !

12 comments:

Anonymous said...

Thanks for the tips Fadoua.
Concerning the safety, Japan is very safe for traveling, Japaneses are very polite and respect Islam, and respect also women wearing Hijab.
Many times,I meet Japanese women who say to me that Hijab is beautiful ^_^

Anonymous said...

Nice to hear that :)

Biraru said...

Arigatou for this useful information ^^

Anonymous said...

you are welcome :)

Liya said...

Assalamualaikum sister,
i am liya, tsumra member from malaysia. Just want to let you know that i emailed the top value asking about their butter roll bread and shokupan. They said that the breads contain animal fat. Before this most of us eat the breads because we thought they use vegetable fat only. Now i think they have change the ingredients to lower the cost. Please refer to the reply from AEON below .

"日頃より、弊社店舗をご利用いただきまして誠にありがとうございます。
この度は、マーガリン・加工油脂・乳化剤に動物性の物の有無について
メールをいただき大変恐縮しております。
お問い合せのことでございますが、
お問い合せの商品には、動物性の物を
『使用させていただいております。』
お問い合せありがとうございました。
今後も弊社店舗をご愛顧賜りますようお願い申し上げます。

イオン株式会社 お客さまサービス部  大屋 光雄"

I hope you can spread to the others. Thank you.

Unknown said...

Thank you very much liya for the infomation. I forwarded the information to tsumra_women.
Btw, are you member of tsumra_women?

IndonesiaHAI said...

assalamualaikum ya ukhti :)

nice to meet a blog write by moslem from japan. I thing u'r minority in this country, but you have plenty friends on the world

greeting from Indonesian
enrichco

Anonymous said...

hello! i'm from Singapore and i want to go to japan during my school break...but is it hard to find food in tokyo?

Ghonaim.a said...

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استفدت من الكثر في مدونتكم
شكراً لكم

Hafida said...

شكرا لك على تصفح مدونتنا

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Unknown said...

Hi..i'm a muslim from malaysia. I'm planning to visit japan this december. Can u share the average cost for visiting japan for 5 days...? Excluding flight ticket of course! Hope anyone here can share their experience.... :)