Advanced ticket for car no. 5, no way.

Can't advance purchase? Means we gotta queue up in the morning for it then

Yes, need to go queue up. I saw some photos people queue up as early as 6.00 5.00 a.m.

This post has been edited by fruitie: Oct 22 2019, 11:01 AM

I'm traveling tomorrow. Would like to know is it advisable to reserve the haruka+icoca card from their website or I should just buy on the spot when i arrive kansai airport.

Any difference in the process/time if I reserve in advance?

NOrmally yes. You can go to their homepage and check the package. Most have the lift package where you can go up to play snow. The ski package might take you higher up the slope and you need to play more. Most skier will just take the lift up and ski down. As the lift is moving in a loop you can take the lift down too, but most probably you dont see people doing it.

When I stay there I normallly booked hotel via jalan.net but not car though. Very reliable page and last time it only caters to resident in Japan.

Just a small note here. Non skiers can normally take gondola 🚡 type lifts both up and down the mountain, but chair-type lifts are usually off limits (and even for skiers vast majority of chairlifts you won’t be allowed to sit down the slope, LLST need to ski down).

Of course there are exceptions and it depends on mountain but I’d say most resorts have one or two main gondolas that go up and end at a building of some sort with restaurant/cafeteria, viewing deck, an area to walk around and maybe even sledding or snow play areas for kids.

Ticket wise I think most resorts also allow you to buy a “return ticket” which should be quite cheaper than the daily passes the skiers and snowboarders use.

This post has been edited by deodorant: Oct 22 2019, 01:38 PM

Is there Uber or Grab sort of app in Japan where i book for taxi?

Sorry another question, can I buy shinkasen train from Kyoto to Tokyo on the spot/on the day itself in Kyoto station? Whats your recommendation?

If you play around with google maps, you'll notice there's Japan Taxi and Didi

DAY 1 – 28 Dec(Sat)
Flight- KUL-KIX 8.45 AM reach
Osaka Castle
Kuromon Ichiba Market (lunch)
Hozenji Yokocho and Temple
Nambayasaka station
Cup noodle museum
Kema sakuranomiya park
Dotonbori (Dinner)
Dotonbori Konamon Museum

DAY 2 – 29 Dec(Sun)
Genji Onsen
Nara deer park
Nijo castle
Sanjusangendo
Todai Ji
Kani koubou

DAY 3 – 30 Dec(Mon)
Disney store Shinsaibashi
Maiddreamin Namba
Kiddyland
Floresta Narute doughnuts
Denden town
Osaka Ohsho
Kinryuu Ramen
Bakajikara curry udon
Umeda Sky building
shitennoji temple

DAY4 – 31Dec(Tue)
porto europe
Wakayama adventure world
wakayama castle
Wakayama Marina City
Osaka house museum (kimono 500 yen)
Countdown in Osaka castle
Unatoto Eel

DAY5 – 1JAN(Wed)
Shinsekai
Minami
Kinji second hand
Aeon
Gram pancake
Shinsekai 鹤桥风月Yodobashi okonomiyaki
Kura Sushi 100yen Namba station
Ichiran Ramen Dotonbori
Kushikatsu Shinsekai


DAY6 – 2JAN(THU)
USJ



DAY7 – 3JAN(FRI)

Naruto park
DAY8- 4JAN(SAT)
Free and Easy
suggest me more idea


DAY9- 5 JAN(SUN)
Gion District
Higashiyama District
Nishiki Market
Kiyomisu temple
Nishijin Inokuma Café
Masugataya Kamigamo
Saikatei Kyoto station
Kiyomizu temple


DAY10 -6JAN(MON)
Fushimi Inari Shrine
Arashiyama Bamboo Grove
Kyoto cherry blossom
Sukemasa Higashiyama
Tomi Sushi Kawaramachi station
Philosopher's path (Tetsugaku no michi)
Kinkaku-ji

DAY11- 7JAN (TUES)

Please give me suggestion.. some place i think the sequence maybe wrong

Is the JR East Service Centre at Haneda Airport always see a long queue?

Or should I go to another JR East Service Centre at other locations?

Um, yes, quite a number of your listed attractions are in totally different locations/areas. Perhaps you could use Google Maps to see where those attractions you listed in your itinerary are located. Then rearrange them based on the area. It will be easier for people to offer advice or suggestions to your itinerary.

5am not really that early. I wake up 6am there, and its like 7am sunrise here. By 7am there its already quite bright. 5am is probably just a while before sunrise.

Well, not about the sunrise but about the timing... I cannot wake up at 5.00 a.m. to go out even it is already bright out there.
When I was in Europe, the sun went off at 10 p.m. and came out at 4.00 a.m., I still didn't go out so early la..

This post has been edited by fruitie: Oct 23 2019, 09:56 AM

Guys, I will be travelling to Kyoto, Nara, Kobe, Himeji, Osaka area soon.
By reading around, landing at KIX I will buy ICOCA +haruka pass to travel around.

My question, is ICOCA alone suffice to travel around the location I visit? Or is there other bus/train pass I need to buy?

why would u want to use a taxi in japan?


ICOCA is an IC card like our touch & go card
haruka pass is a 1 way express train ticket to kyoto station

if u owned a IC card like pasmo or suica, u don't need ICOCA
and there are other mode of transportation in KIX to go where u wanted to go too

Hi, may i know which portal you used to buy your ticket online?

I see the registration in japanese i pening


Based on my understanding via Rakuten, after i pay via credit card, I still need to collect the ticket from 7-11 or FamMart with additional charges?

I also having problem entering my chinese name as full width kanji in Rakuten purchase page and it doesn't accept romanji character

This post has been edited by scchan107: Oct 23 2019, 11:35 AM

Yep I used Rakuten to buy and the physical tickets have to be picked up from 7-11.
There was a surcharge of 100 Yen pp I think.
My bro did this for me

Wanna ask you whether a buttock pad is important as a knee pad for skiing?

Don’t need any protective gear for skiing (other than helmet, but even then I don’t bother lol). Knee pads butt pads elbow pads etc all no point one.

For snowboarding then maybe cos you fall on your butt and knees a lot and it could hurt after a while.