I'm sitting in the railway station

“Got a ticket to my destination”.

At least I will have, once I have worked out what to do.

Comments 🔗

2013-09-23 | Richard H says

What to do:

1. Buy minimum-fare ticket (Y130?)
2. Travel to destination
3. Insert ticket in excess-fare machine
4. Read balance due
5. Insert cash as appropriate.

Seriously, it’s as good a way as any to avoid the “what kind of ticket” dilemma when travelling in Japan. Or you could buy a watermelon…

For added entertainment: 2a Learn the departure melody of your chosen platform. (Travel often enough and you’ll find it burrows into your brain - and if you do forget, there’s a geocities.jp website devoted to them!)

2013-09-23 | Spike says

Good idea!

2013-09-23 | Bob James says

So you haven’t told us what you are doing in Japan anyway? Holiday? Photo journey? Wife’s work trip?

2013-09-24 | Paal S Dinessen says

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_train_songs

2013-09-24 | Andrew says

Kyoto Eki sure seems to be spruced up since I was there last…hopefully you can at least do a day trip to Osaka to see the difference - old Japanese saying: “Kyoto people wear their money and Osaka people eat it”….

2013-09-24 | Spike says

Looking out of my hotel window this morning, I appear to be there. Judging by the collection of shopping bags on the floor, she who must be obeyed’s motto has been “people in Osaka spend their money.”

2013-09-25 | Andrewa says

Not sure how much time you have there but a trip to Shikoku is also definitely worth it ( used to be-maybe still available- a ferry from Osaka) as well as a trip to Hokkaido …but then you would be overflowing with shopping bags and would have to throw away your luggage you came with…also - the used camera shops in Japan can hide some great film camera steals - now that would be worth throwing away the luggage for…

2013-09-25 | Andrew says

not sure how I became Andrewa but it seems to fit the location

2013-09-26 | Spike says

Sadly run out of time, heading home today.