Name: Tips for Traveling Japan in Summer you MUST Know!
Uploaded: 2020-10-09T20:20:10.000Z
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So this video is all about tips on traveling Japan in the summer and just in general.

But it's mostly going to be summer tips because it is summer.

While it's becoming summer now, it is now June in Japan, and June is said to be the rainy season, so we're going to get a lot of rain.

It's called Sue You in Japan, so basically, it's just rain, rain, rain, rain, typhoons.

I wanna think mobile for sponsoring this video.

A lot of you guys were asking about sim cards because I talked about WiFi free WiFi in Japan.

But you can also get sim cards, and this one is one of the easiest ones that you can get, and I want to talk a little bit about it today.

So that is the first tip when you come to Japan is getting a SIM card.

If you don't want to constantly use free WiFi free WiFi is very good, but I think you'll get better reception wherever you go if you do get a SIM card.

But not to worry free WiFi is literally everywhere in Tokyo So this is mobile.

I'm going to read what's on the little card that they give you.

You'll get one when you get the SIM card, um, and English language support, which is always good.

There's 15 30 60 days and ongoing service options.

So this is a very good one, and they will send it to you before you get to Japan, which is a must have.

They'll send it to you free shipping, and you will be all set when you arrive.

If you can't get it before you come to Japan, if you're too short on time, you can get SIM cards at the airport, so you do not have to worry at all.

So I want to tell you about some of the apps that I use when I'm traveling around Japan, and a couple of known maybe known ones are Naveed time, which is something that you can use to get on the trains.

But if you can't use nappy time, nappy time is usually only for Japanese phone.

So basically most of the time, like I said in one of my other videos, they use Google maps a lot of the time and they actually updated it.

So if you look up from where you are and your destination, it'll show you the boarding position for the fastest transfer.

So when you're going to transfer trains, you go to Car three in order to get faster to the next transfer, Which is pretty cool tells you how much time you have before the train comes.

Honestly, like I have had no troubles using this app.

Google is pretty well known, and I highly suggest it.

So that's one app that I use when I'm navigating the trains.

I also use Google translate a lot if I don't know how to read something.

My kanji and reading skills are not that good.

Still, I can read basic congee, but it's definitely a difficult thing to learn and understand.

So if you guys don't know any Japanese at all or can't read anything at all, you can always go to Google.

Translate for those of you who don't know you can go thio the app.

I know this is a bag of tuna, but basically you can take a picture, will scan it for you, and then you can kind of color over the part that you want to read, and then it will tell you in English Not perfect, obviously, because it's cool.

This is so useful for people who are traveling in Japan.

Another app that's very useful is meet up app.

If you are traveling, this is a good way to meet other people or other travelers along the way, so I highly recommend it.

So that being said, want to get a SIM card?

And this is one company that seems to be legit.

Yeah, ally, right tip number to bring a towel if you don't have a towel.

If you don't bring a towel or you forget a towel, they're sold basically everywhere.

I actually don't have one right now, but I need to get a new one.

They have cute little square towels that were different themes and colors, and they're usually pretty cute and fun to collect in the summer.

It is a must have because you will be sweating and soaking wet.

It is extremely extremely humid, especially because of the rainy season and the typhoons and things is an island, so basically it's just wet.

This is basically for anytime you travel in Japan.

Please carry a plastic bag you carry around a plastic bag.

Garbage cans are very hard to come by in Japan.

My parents, when they traveled here, they always carried a bag with them because they couldn't find a garbage can for the life of them.

I know it sucks, sucks to kind of carry it around, but it is a good idea.

It's better than carrying around your uneaten food or your plastic bottles or anything like that, like it's good to carry around until you find a garbage can carry around your deodorant.

They have deodorant here, but it's pretty expensive compared to where I'm from, so I don't know how it is over there, but they can cost up to like 1000 yen, which is like $10 for a small little stick of deodorant.

and the deodorant here doesn't have a lot of antiperspirant inside it.

It's hard to find that here they do have it, But it's just you have to kind of look around a little bit more, and it's a little more expensive than a regular deodorant.

Feel like Japanese people don't sweat like, I swear, God, it's just Can I please have your sweat plans?

Because I sweat like crazy, where shoes that are extremely comfortable and wear clothes that air breathable and tasteful.

Now, when you go to like a respectful place like a shrine or something like that, old tradition says that you should try to cover up a much as possible.

But in general, a lot of Japanese people don't wear very skimpy clothes or anything like that.

They don't want super super short shorts and like spaghetti strap tops and camisoles.

And like it's, they cover themselves up a lot because they want to protect their skin, which is pretty smart.

The sun is super intense, and there's a lot of heat stroke that goes on in Japan.

So if you wanna look fashionable, if you wanna look tasteful, I suggest you were just breathable Close a T shirts and shorts, long shorts, long breathable pants skirts and also wear extremely comfortable shoes that air easily taken off.

Because when you go to a restaurant, sometimes, yeah, they're gonna ask you to take off your shoes, or if you enter a museum or something, you're gonna wanna take off your shoes.

Don't wear super complicated sandals that wrap up around your leg or anything like that.

But I know sandals are huge thing in the summer.

I love wearing sandals, but then I get to a place where have to take my shoes off, and I'm like, Oh, crap, I wore the wrong shoes.

Now fans like Japanese fans, they are being given out for free, sometimes on the street.

But you can get cheap ones in shops here in Japan.

It's kind of a nice souvenir to carrying a fan around and just fanning yourself.

They also have those squirt bottle things, the fans and all that stuff, so they have a lot here for the summer.

But yeah, carrying around a Japanese fund is really fun, and it cools you off and just make sure you stay hydrated and carry a water bottle around at all times as well, because it gets so intensely hot here.

If summer is your only chance to come to Japan, I hope that you use these tips when you do travel here the summer months.

The one thing that I really have to say that I really love about summer and coming to Japan during the summer are the festivals.

There are so many festivals in Japan in the summer.

There are fireworks, there's dancing, there's food carts.

A lot of people ring yukata, which are the Japanese traditional clothing during summer months, and I think it is a very good time to enjoy summer festivals.

If you do want to come, Japan come to see that because I think that is kind of like a once in a lifetime chance to see the negative thing about the summer is the heat.

It is so intense, so plan to come to Japan to do things that are indoors a lot of the time and then half the time outdoors, so make sure you're going.

You have a good balance of going in and out of places.

It's best to visit museums and indoor shopping center to go in and out of the heat and the air conditioning so you don't catch any kind of heat stroke.

Follow these tips and you guys will be totally fine when you come visit in the summer.