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If you have a Sprint or Verizon phone, your phone almost certainly won’t work in Japan. If you use AT&T or T-Mobile, you will need to have your provider SIM-unlock your phone, and chances are that they will not if you are still under contract. Roaming charges will be obscene, so your best bet will probably be to rent a cell phone. You can google for japan cell phone rental, here is one site that seems to have decent reviews: http://www.rentafonejapan.com/?gclid=CMeqpu_6lq8CFehgTAodwjU0ww
T-two months to my trip! I’ve been keeping track of the exchange rate USD vs JPY, and it is getting more favorable every day! woot!
:( Wish I could get the Suica/NEX pass from Tokyo Station, we’re flying in to Haneda, but out of Narita.
Yep, the JR Pass looks amazing. It’s about 28,300円 for 7 days (45,100円 for 14 days) and you can take almost any JR train, including most of the しんかんせん. (The two fastest classes, のぞみ and みずほ, aren’t covered, nor are sleeper trains.) JR busses are also covered, as is the N’EX train from Narita Airport, so you can get near just about anywhere in Japan.
I plan on getting a 7-day JR pass and spending a week making my way south towards Hiroshima by way of Nagoya, Kyoto, Osaka, and Okayama. By then I’ll take a train back to Tokyo and spend the rest of my trip around there.
I just booked two tickets for two weeks starting May 11…planning on about 150,000円/person. We’ll have 7-day JR Passes and roundtrip airfare (was about $1200/person from Kansas) outside of that. I’ve been building a list of hostels and cheap みんしゅく to stay at to attempt to keep lodging costs below 6000円 per night…at least while we aren’t in Tokyo. (Although, if I book here, I should be able to do that even IN Tokyo.)
Basically, we’re looking to do it as inexpensively as possible, but still see a nice big swath of the country. My camera will get the workout of its lifetime.
