Name: Traveling in Japan with Luca Nicora and special guest Danjo:
Uploaded: 2020-10-31T19:25:39.000Z
Duration: 19 min 41 s
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hey guys welcome to only in japan i'm  luca nicora the host of this episode  

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again today we'll be talking about  traveling

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and i wanted to invite my really good friend daniel jordan

of this episode because he's the person who taught me how to get around japan when i first moved here

he calls me dj and sometimes if you want to find me on social media you can just say hey dan joe

and i'll come and chat with you a little bit

we actually got  here at the same time but i had lived here

uh two years previously from 2015 to 2017

so i was able to figure out a little bit of my way around

so when he moved here i was able to kind of show  him the ropes a little bit

and thanks for joining us for this video no problem it should be pretty  fun to kind of have a stroll around and

explore some new parts of osaka that i haven't seen yet

nice it's kind of one of those fun things that at least in osaka

really all around japan because  the public transport and everything is so easy

it's kind of simple to pick out a day trip and  just go somewhere

and explore a new side of japan that you haven't seen before

so today we're gonna  explore the uh the 1970s world expo it's like uh

and  there's some different sculptures and art exhibits and some stuff there that should be pretty cool

pretty cool yeah well that's really exciting

we're at OSAKA-KOU train station right now

we're gonna be headed to the site of the 1970s world expo

there's  a lot of pocket wi-fi options in japan

some train stations have wi-fi at the stations that you  would have to sign into usually you just have to sign in with your email address or something like that

yeah one thing that's cool about this thing is that it shows you all the different spots

where you would want to go on this train line

i don't know wherever  some somewhere else down the line like here

it would tell us exactly how much the ticket is

and this is even more expensive  because

the jr line is like the national train line  that kind of goes across the whole country

in japan the use of prepaid rechargeable  cards or ic cards are widely used

in the greater osaka region mainly the icoca card  is used

each of these cards can be used throughout japan  to pay for public transportations at vending  machines

you can charge them  at convenience stores or at any train stations

just fit it in so like the amount right away you  don't even have to do anything shows the value  

which is about 6USD and 17 cents  more or less i'll just put 2000 which is about 20dollars

bills here yeah it's like the  casino you know

now most train stations have their own  

basically that sound tells you  that their train is coming this way

and then there's a different train or a different  time for the train that's going the other way

in japan every train station has these um yellow markings which i forgot the word foot braille! foot braille

because there's a huge community of  elderly and

you gotta make sure we know every single thing

anyways the hootrail so yeah they make sure that uh the

can get around  any station and around the city as well

yeah cause it's all over the sidewalks too

i've seen  this before somewhere else but not to that extent

because here in japan is everywhere everywhere

i don't know if there's a proper term for it but we're gonna call it foot braille for right now

now yeah we'll find the official terminology later

people really respect the when you're standing and  not moving you're on the right on the right side  

yeah and they leave the the space for people  that are in a hurry or that need to like run  

it's also a osaka thing osaka  people stand on the right side of the escalator

and then in tokyo they stand on the left side

no way or in kyoto which is on the left side as well

it's one of those weird things that  like osaka is on the right and then kyoto and tokyo are like on the left

no i don't really  know why i like to do things different here

it's nice that there's plenty of decent signage

well actually it was really daunting for me at first when i moved to japan

and i would see a lot  of signs a lot of color everywhere

really so at first i got really like overwhelmed and i was a  bit like where where do i go where do i go

but i just had to like realize and first take a breath  and calm down and realize there's always the

ROMAJI spelling or the western alphabet i  guess so you can actually find the name of every  

station everywhere so if you know where you're  going it's actually really easy to get around

i think they're really only enforced during  

that's right  so really during rush hours to give

the ladies a place to be where they don't have  to feel like they're surrounded by weirdos

yeah there's signs everywhere even if you get  lost for a second you'll always find your way  

how do you get around if you don't know where  you're going though

so i use google map it's a pretty reliable source

what's quite interesting is that they also tend to give you the crowd crowdedness uh

other information the platforms and sometimes even uh which car to get on

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