Name: How to Travel Japan for Free ★ ONLY in JAPAN
Uploaded: 2020-07-30T16:51:50.000Z
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Welcome to the cheapest way to get around Japan.

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Hitchhiking while hitchhiking the whole country from Kagoshima, Tokyo, Edo I stopped halfway to make a quick guide with tips on how to hack the system.

All this adventure can be yours if you put away your Japan rail pass and take out your phrasebook adventure awaits the adventurous.

I thought I take it break out of my very busy highway schedule too.

Give you a little guide on how to hitchhike in Japan.

So I've been doing this for about 15 years now and I absolutely love it.

The reason why I do it is not because I don't have any money.

But that's exactly why I started hitchhiking back in 2003 when I traveled the road from what Canada?

I wanted to see the whole country without draining my bank account.

And during the one month trip, 20 people stopped taking me the length of the country.

I spent only $150 for four weeks staying and towns off the beaten path, discovering new places, not in any guidebook.

I hitchhiked because I want to meet people.

Um, in the sense that people will pick you up are doing so because they want to help you.

Curious about what you're doing and why when you hitchhike, Don't get in a car if you don't feel comfortable with the person is picking you up 9 10 times out of 10.

I can't say that nine 99 out of 100 times the present picking you up you're gonna say yes to because they're very kind hearted person.

Don't go by the way people look, go by the way people act.

One instance was a man who saw me holding my sign at a service area and offered me a ride In the 1st 10 seconds.

He told me he was traveling to toy Yama alone that could use the company and I was happy for the ride.

I haven't hear lots of cables, tense batteries, a tent, batteries stuff for video, video equipment.

Very little of it is clothing This is what I'll be wearing for the entire month.

And I'm able to do laundry because there's laundromats in Japan just about everywhere.

So I'm I'm always pretty clean, which isn't a problem, But it's OK to look scruffy, which is number three.

No one's gonna pick up someone in a business suit, right?

Why don't Why don't you take in your private jet?

Because if no one picks you up you to place this day, having a tent is extremely invaluable.

I've used it four times on this trip already.

So where do you sleep when you're traveling on the road like this?

When you say camping in Japanese, people think of recreational camping with barbecues, cooking on fire and friends and families making a lot of noise.

In those cases, you need a recreational camping area.

If you're just pitching a tent and crashing for the night, a local Parker Public area will dio Thea.

Unwritten rule is to set up late after dark and get up early and leave.

When the sun comes up, make sure the area is clean and don't disturb the neighborhood.

If the area is private property like farms, ask in advance.

The local tourist office and train stations can sometimes point you in the right direction.

I need to be able to communicate with people.

So having cardboard is the way I communicate to let people know where I'm going.

This is my Joudeh, which is the next destination or near the next station, that next destination where I want to go.

You'd have markers, have more than one have maybe 23 Handy, keeping it nice and neat.

I have a lot of duct tape, which I used not just for making it more visible.

The signs, but also for taping them back to keep them from flapping around in the wind, will be times when the wind is very, very heavy and having the duct.

It also helps case there's a hole in your tent or other reasons.

If you might need it, like taping a camera to wall or something like that communication.

It also helps to be able to speak some Japanese.

You have to be able to right where you want to go.

The reason why I don't write it in Ramadi is Japanese eyes, although traffic signs have both Japanese Condi and Ramadi, English letters, Japanese.

Foreign tourists see the English letters first, not the Japanese characters.

You're getting picked up by someone who's Japanese.

You could do that with Google, translate app, which is free, or just the map and copy down what you see.

Just be very careful in the way you write it because the strokes sort of matter in being understood.

You wanna have a smile, you don't have a good attitude.

You want to be able to speak Japanese a little bit, have a phrasebook or ah, guide where you can communicate with the person who picks you up.

They'll probably be able to speak a little bit of English because they're picking up a foreigner.

But you want to be able to speak enough Japanese Teoh, carry a fun conversation if you can.

But again, the reason why I'm hitchhiking purely is for the adventure, for the fun of it and to meet people.

You have to think about where the people on that road are going to go to and the highest percentage of them taking you to that spot.

And maybe you gotta hitchhike twice to get toe to the place that you want to go.

So you have to kind of figure out what are the number plates, the license plates going in your direction?

This spot was a little outside Kagoshima on the way to the expressway towards Kumamoto.

Traffic was heavy, but it was hard to find a place for a ride to safely stop and pick me up.

Bus lanes can work when the roads aren't super busy.

On average, it took 20 to 45 minutes for a ride to stop the fastest was 45 seconds on the longest was over four hours.

My ride to Kumamoto initially passed me, then went around the black to pick me up.

25% of my rise went out of their way to pick me up just like this.

Just not my day, Asahi, color or bust In Sapporo, I started early at the entrance of the Hokkaido Expressway.

My first right only took me about 30 kilometers to the town of Awami.

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