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 Travel To Japan V12, Everything you need for a Japan trip!

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kyxxx
post Jan 25 2019, 11:27 AM

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QUOTE(tohff7 @ Jan 25 2019, 11:21 AM)
Thought normally ppl will spend the first few days around Tokyo area, before activating whatever JR passes to go other areas?  hmm.gif
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my previous experience, that's the ticket counter to purchase NEX (between Narita to Tokyo station)
but i arrived early so no such long que biggrin.gif
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post May 6 2019, 08:59 AM

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QUOTE(Hitman190 @ May 4 2019, 05:50 AM)
Hi guys, I am going to Japan in December, got my flight and accommodation setup but I want to ask, what is the best unlimited data wifi provider for trips to Japan.

I checked Samurai Wifi, they have plans that are unlimited and without speed throttling and is reasonably priced, does anyone have here have experience with their services or any other competing brands?
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i been using Travel Recommend for my trip to Japan and Korea
So far unlimited and stable connection (Tokyo, Kanagawa area should be fine) - and i shared it with 5 devices too, never found any speed throttling (i think for asia countries, you need not to worry about speed throttling)

and now is promo time, which if u use VISA 15% discount or VISA platinum 30% discount for daily rates (standard RM12/day)

i just booked for my trip to Tokyo end of this month at RM8.4/day laugh.gif

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post May 6 2019, 09:29 AM

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QUOTE(-kytz- @ May 6 2019, 09:10 AM)
That's tempting! How's the battery life? And the quota is unlimited?
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Battery life is around 1 day usage (from morning til night) --> so far havent encounter any battery issue (but to be safe, i brought power bank with me always)
As for quota, my previous trips to Japan (Apr-2016) and Korea (Dec-2018) were unlimited, and i believe still unlimited now biggrin.gif

Only China, SEA, Europe countries u will find most plans are not unlimited but have quota of 500mb or so.

For Japan i'll go for pocket wifi like Travel Recommend, since we can share and unlimited
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post May 9 2019, 05:43 PM

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QUOTE(MR_alien @ May 7 2019, 02:51 PM)
many here have said that this subway pass isn't worth it because u need to use like over 3 times in order for it to break even
and it doesn't even cover all the line in tokyo
so it's very hard to break even or make it worth it
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for this i think is better you check where you wanna go within that day with google map and see the route.

for my case, i also thought that subway pass is a waste, but after i re-check my entire itinerary again, apparently i'll use more than 500yen a day for transportation (which better to purchase 3-day subway pass for 1500yen for 3 days)

you can see my method here, upon listing down the locations and how to go to each locations, i roughly estimated my travelling expenses (for estimation and budgetting purpose): Tokyo Trip Itinerary 2019 - GDrive

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