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• Bring some cash (Score:2)

  by autarch (914)

  Japan is a very cash-oriented place, and it's not as easy to find a foreign-friendly ATM as it is in other places I've been to. Bring a few hundred euros worth of cash with you when you go to make your life a little easier.
  
  • Re: (Score:2)

    by cog (4665)

    Hum... Does that mean that people will accept my money, or will I have to buy some Yens first?
    • Re:Bring some cash (Score:2)

      by autarch (914) on 2008.01.28 11:17 (#60596) Homepage Journal

      I meant bring some Yen. As the other followup pointed out, there are ATMs in the airport, but you may be too tired to want to deal with it. I've never taken the bus mentioned. There's a train that goes from NRT to the Tokyo train station [jreast.co.jp]. If you're staying at Dan's place, you can catch a cab from that train station to his place for cheap.
      
      If you're staying in Japan for a while, you can get a really good deal where you buy a train ticket and some pre-paid subway/train fare on a Suica card for a good price. Here's some info on that deal [jreast.co.jp]. It's only available to foreigners, but that's you ;)
      
      Given that an average subway/train trip will run 100-200 yen or so, 2,000 yen prepaid on the suica card is handy if you expect to be there a week or more. Plus a Suica card makes it way easier, since you just run your wallet over the reader, rather than buying tickets every time you want to get on the train.

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      • Re: (Score:2)

        by autarch (914)

        One more thing. To buy that combo Nex + Suica package, you can only do it at one ticket counter, even though you'll probably see a bunch of others. There's little maps on the page I linked to above.