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 Travel with ease in Tokyo using - `PASMO’ 

Getting around amongst the millions of people in Tokyo can be a daunting task but you need not worry with this convenient `Pasmo’ card! Pasmo is a top-up commuter pass which can be used on subway, JR trains and buses in Tokyo. This one card can be topped up with a maximum of 20,000 yen at one time and to use just swipe it past the sensor on the end of the ticket gate on your way through. You don’t even have to take it out of your wallet!! Some convenient stores also accept this card for payment of goods as well as vending machines. 

This means that you don’t have to worry about working out how much each trip costs, fiddling with the ticket machine and navigating the station at the same time. To top up this card, all you have to do is look for the ticket machine with the Pasmo symbol, enter the card, it will give you options of how much to add, for example 1,000 yen – 20,000 yen, press the amount you wish to add and then enter your money (change is given). 

Before you return home, hand this card back into the staff at the station and receive a refund of 500 yen which is the value of the card. 

I thoroughly recommend using this while in Tokyo as it is a stress-free way method to getting to those tourist attractions and shopping hubs with ease!!

Now, you can purchase these passes in our store. For more information, please contact one of our very friendly staff!

Trying to see the most of the country that I could with this ticket as I could, my friends and I decided to go south, to Kyushu. From Nagoya to Hakata was something like a 14 -16 hours train trip, starting at about 5.30am. You really have to plan ahead which trains you need to take because to give you an idea we had to change about 8 times on this leg!!

A great website to do this is `Hyperdia’http://www.hyperdia.com/cgi-english/hyperWeb.cgi

First stop was Fukuoka which is a lovely city famous for fresh crab, blowfish and Ramen. Of course I ate my way around as well, must try everything on the way!! Blowfish looks just like this (below) if you have as sashimi. I didn’t think that it had too much flavor but I don’t think that my palate for Japanese food wasn’t very refined at this stage

When we ordered it though, a man came out with a net and grabbed one out of the pond in front of us and we could see the chef in the kitchen slicing it up for us – talk about fresh! Before we knew it, it was in front of us, body also on plate as a decoration….

Traveling on Sleeper/Night trains with a JR Pass

`Hokutosei and Cassiopeia’

Most travelers buy a JR pass for traveling in Japan as it is very economical and convenient. One thing to be careful with though is if you are wanting to do long trips using a sleep car train, booking your seats can not be done until you have activated your pass in JAPAN! Popular trains to head up to Sapporo are `Hokutosei’ and the `Cassiopeia’. Both of these trains depart in the afternoon from Ueno in Tokyo and arrive in Sapporo around 16.5 hours later.  Some travelers have trouble as these trains are also very popular with Japanese people so they with seats selling up quickly. There is no way to get around this than to buy the tickets for this trip outright with Travel Japan, with the tickets being sent to your hotel in Japan.

Just wanted to let this be known as I don’t want you to plan your trip and not be able to make it happen!!

(*Please note that the Snow Festival is the busiest season for this problem to occur*)

*Conditions apply