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Exfarmer(on a bike) blog: A Japanese adventure
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<blockquote data-quote="Exfarmer" data-source="post: 1257590" data-attributes="member: 1951"><p>Travelling in Japan is easy but can be hectic! Our local mainline station is Shinjuku. This station not only serves the mainline but also about a dozen underground rail networks. It is easily the largest station in the world by sheer volume, handling 3,500,000 passengers a day. Getting round it can be daunting, the rail system is entirely private and the different companies don't necessarily talk to each other. You cannot find signage all over the station for all the networks. Given there are over 300 entrances it can be difficult to get to your intended destination if you do not know the layout. Many of the signs are only in Japanese. However all the staff are unfailingly courteous and helpful if they can be, rushing to find someone who can speak English.</p><p>My son is a bit of a foodie and given that breakfast in the hotel is erratic we decided to go to the station where a cafe is highly recomended. It took us an hour to find this cafe ( google maps etc are very unreliable as often the map requires the destination in Kanji rather than Roman lettering )</p><p>We joined the inevitable queue, after 10 minutes the staff took pity on us and told us we needed a booking and the earliest they had was in half an hour!</p><p>Starving by now , but having nothing else to do, we waited about and indeed we had as good an omelette , scrambled eggs and French toast as you will find anywhere. It was fairly expensive though, with coffee and juice etc it came to £30 but should see us through till dinner time.</p><p>Next the battle was to find our platform to get the underground back to our hotel, why we did this I don' t know as it would have been far quicker to walk the kilometre.</p><p>Strangely we had far less hassle finding our way to Fuji, except I did get lost returning to the station , when Google again took me to the wrong one, thankfully it was less than a mile to the right one and I was in the bike.</p><p>Cycling in Japan is very easy as the drivers are exceptionally well behaved on the roads always giving bikes priority</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Exfarmer, post: 1257590, member: 1951"] Travelling in Japan is easy but can be hectic! Our local mainline station is Shinjuku. This station not only serves the mainline but also about a dozen underground rail networks. It is easily the largest station in the world by sheer volume, handling 3,500,000 passengers a day. Getting round it can be daunting, the rail system is entirely private and the different companies don't necessarily talk to each other. You cannot find signage all over the station for all the networks. Given there are over 300 entrances it can be difficult to get to your intended destination if you do not know the layout. Many of the signs are only in Japanese. However all the staff are unfailingly courteous and helpful if they can be, rushing to find someone who can speak English. My son is a bit of a foodie and given that breakfast in the hotel is erratic we decided to go to the station where a cafe is highly recomended. It took us an hour to find this cafe ( google maps etc are very unreliable as often the map requires the destination in Kanji rather than Roman lettering ) We joined the inevitable queue, after 10 minutes the staff took pity on us and told us we needed a booking and the earliest they had was in half an hour! Starving by now , but having nothing else to do, we waited about and indeed we had as good an omelette , scrambled eggs and French toast as you will find anywhere. It was fairly expensive though, with coffee and juice etc it came to £30 but should see us through till dinner time. Next the battle was to find our platform to get the underground back to our hotel, why we did this I don' t know as it would have been far quicker to walk the kilometre. Strangely we had far less hassle finding our way to Fuji, except I did get lost returning to the station , when Google again took me to the wrong one, thankfully it was less than a mile to the right one and I was in the bike. Cycling in Japan is very easy as the drivers are exceptionally well behaved on the roads always giving bikes priority [/QUOTE]
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