QUESTIONS & ANSWERS

Hi. I am traveling to Japan/Tokyo with my daughter in April for the first ever time. We have ideas to visit as much as we can in 7 days. Does anyone have any tips for airport to hotel transfer and best train travel tickets to purchase for the duration of our stay and any handy tips for getting ab...

Toraneko You don't write where you are going to in Japan - you might save a lot of money on a Japan Rail Pass if you are doing a lot of long-distance traveling, but if you don't, you could lose a lot of money on a rail pass too. If you are only staying in one area like Tokyo, then you would probably save ... Continue

We are 25 year old males from New York City.

I'm particularly interested in rummaging through some second hand bookshops during my visit, like BOOKOFF for example. I want to buy books written in Japanese, not in English. I know hiragana, katakana and around 700 kanji, but I'm not sure how to find books about certain topics or authors even i...

Yoshie Yanagida Generally those are stacked in the self with categorized by genre like travel, cooking, hobby, nature, or magazine and so on.You could find what you want by Kiosk device in large store, but you would not do in the small one. However, you can ask at the service counter or cashier with showing your... Continue

I speak Arabic and English , is that enough to communicate with people in Tokyo , akihabara and other cities ? 

Hideaki Of course it is best for you to be able to speak Japanese. Many Japanese can’t speak English but still English is the most common 2nd language in Japan.  Continue