Name: 10 JAPAN TRAVEL HACKS YOU NEED TO KNOW!
Uploaded: 2020-08-25T19:05:13.000Z
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Hey guys it's Kim Dao right here welcome back to my channel in today's video

Future simple

I'm going to be telling you guys 10 Japan travel hacks that will make your travel to Japan a lot easier

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Wi-Fi these days wi-Fi. It is very important to everyone. Let's face it. I'm pretty sure a lot of you guys cannot survive  Wi-Fi

I'm one of those people too, and yes, I do know it is bad to be so dependent on internet, but

It's just how it is these days the first time I went to Japan about five years ago

I had this mindset that all Japan is a land of technology right? They must be free wi-Fi everywhere

Wrong but , then there was no free Wi-Fi in Japan

It was so hard to contact people navigating around the country it was

Very difficult back in the day luckily these days there are pieces where you can get free Wi-Fi

But will it be more convenient has wi-fi it's everywhere you go

That is why you should get your own wi-Fi by getting  a pocket WIFI  or a sim card

I'm going to be talking about both of these so you guys can pick whichever one is more convenient for you first off are going

To be talking about the pocket  Wi-Fi, so the pocket  Wi-Fi

got really popular a couple of years ago the second time

I went to Japan I rent a pocket wi-Fi, and it made my life so much easier

I was able to search up places where I wanted to go when I wasn't at home

I was able to contact my friends. It was amazing now typically pocket

Wi-Fi if you have to get them before you come to Japan

So if you just google up pocket  Wi-Fi Japan rentals something like that there are many companies that will rent out a top of Wi-Fi

To use now keep in [mind]. They aren't exactly cheap

so if I can remember correctly for one month

I would pay about maybe $100 for a pocket wi-Fi device  now the good thing about the pocket  Wi-Fi device

Is that it is very fast internet you can connect your phone you can connect your laptop and you can do your work?

inconvenient thing about this is that you have charge it

So you have to carry around something extra in your bag which is a bit annoying when you're traveling especially?

And you also have to keep an eye out on the battery

You won't have wi-Fi and you have to charge it and these days your phone's eyes really quickly right and also if you're travelling in

A big group of people and everyone's connected to this wi-Fi, and you guys [will] separate who's going to keep the Wi-Fi device

but if you're traveling [by] [yourself], and you use [your] computer

I would  definitely recommend you get the Wi-Fi device now

There are SIM cards ,  SIM cards recently became super popular in Japan for tourists you can buy them very easily when you come to Japan

So you can even get them at the airport, but I recommend you go to a big camera , a Yamada Denki

one of the big electronics shops? They would definitely have SIM cards now these SIM cards

You can't get a phone number in Japan unless if u live here, but in the darkest in cars

Which is exactly what you need now these SIM

cards aren't exactly cheap as well compared to I guess other countries so you can get about I think  five gigabytes for about

$30 and it only lasts for a [certain] amount of time it depends on how long [you] buy for you can buy it for one

[week] two weeks, or one month these sim card. Just put them into your phones, and you have to do some set up

So you need some wi-Fi to set it up and voila

You've got internet now some cars are more convenient if you're doing in and laptop

You just have to put it in your phone and and you've got wi-fi everywhere you go so you don't have to carry it around

a pocket wifi device . There is a dose limit . Oh, so that's a downside whereas the pocket Wi-Fi usually

There's no limit so you can use as much internet as you want number two getting a JR

Pass a lot of people [ask] me if they should get a Jr

and I can't really answer that for you because that's something you should try and

Figure out yourself because I don't know where you are going to travel to in Japan, but anyway the Jl

Pass is a part of many people and tourist visas are able to get it isn't cheap

It's about 300 dollars for one week, but that means you can ride as manyJR

trains as you want for the whole week including bullet trains except the fastest one which is nozomi

You can use the JR pass to travel to different cities in Japan for example

You can go from tokyo to Osaka down in Hiroshima , and it saves you a lot of money because a one-way ticket

so if you think [about] it this way if you're going from Tokyo to Osaka

[down to Hiroshima traveling around that area then you go back to tokyo

[that] would be worth it because if you calculator or a  JR pass is

Cheaper than paying for the ticket separately it is a very good path that has if you've had to travel all around Japan because it

Will save you a lot of money [number] [three] thinking about [all] [the] travel stuff

I want to tell you guys the site called audio JP

Now you guys may have known Odigo because I traveled with them last year, but recently they have rebadged our whole website

[so] the website allows you to plan [your] trips to Japan

And it makes your life so much easier [suppose] over there are a lot [of] people that want to travel to Japan

But don't know much about Japan and it's fun because this website makes everything easier for you by giving you suggestions

[so] you just put in data when you plan to travel?

Or where you can go in Japan and how to get around which makes your life so much easier

One huge change in audio, which I really like is that you [can] book your whole entire trip using this website

You can now book your flight your accommodation [rest] a car. You can book activities

You can book tours everything can be done on this one website [so] as you can see the website has improved a lot

that's really new they are trying to make a more community base which means you guys going to be a

Contributor [to] the website and then you can get paid for making

Experiences in Japan you can give tips on traveling you can give tips [on] where to shop what takes you must do when you are

In Japan things you must eat in Japan the [celeron] is much more like a community now

And I'm also going to be making a lot of blog posts

About traveling to Japan so make sure you follow me on Odigo

and a great thing is is that [if] [you] make [sloth] post always be contribute to the

Community your own points which turns into money so you actually get paid for the stuff that you do so I need to get paid

to travel to Japan you don't know what to do and

You [are] stuck on how to plan your trip then definitely check out the odigo website, or if you have already being in Japan

Then make sure you sign up and then try and make some blog [posts] just to help other people out and number four trade apps

You can use in Japan [so] you guys probably know that trades are kind of crazy Japan

And it is very confusing like I mean look at this when I first came to Japan [boy]. I was confused

I did not know what I was doing luckily now because [of] train apps. They do make things a lot more easier

There are many apps in English that you can use if you just type in Japan travel or Japan trains

Just only one of those apps and then put where you want to go and where you're coming [from] and it just makes things