Living in Japan – Ep.2: Train travel 2 of 2

By · Friday, August 21st, 2009

I follow up my previous video about train travel in Japan.
Here are the sites I reference…

English

http://www.hyperdia.com/cgi-english/hyperWeb.cgi

http://www.jorudan.co.jp/english/norikae/e-norikeyin.html

http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&tab=wl

Japanese

http://www.ekikara.jp/top.htm

http://transit.map.yahoo.co.jp/

Duration : 0:5:44


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Comments

By LifeInShiga on August 21st, 2009 at 4:17 pm

No problem!
No problem!

By LifeInShiga on August 21st, 2009 at 4:17 pm

No problem and as I …
No problem and as I mentioned, try to plan as much as possible at home, you will thank yourself once you are in Japan.

By LifeInShiga on August 21st, 2009 at 4:17 pm

You can do it! :)
You can do it! :)

By LifeInShiga on August 21st, 2009 at 4:17 pm

heck yeah, let’s …
heck yeah, let’s see it!

By LifeInShiga on August 21st, 2009 at 4:17 pm

at first, when you …
at first, when you type googledotcom, it will default you to the japanese site. if you look at the bottom of the screen, there will be an english phrase that says “view google in english” and from then on you will see it in english (so long as you don’t delete your cookies or change IP addresses). let me know if that helps.

By sessoms11290 on August 21st, 2009 at 4:17 pm

have you tried …
have you tried googledotus or something like that lol.

Thanks for those …
Thanks for those links, I’m supposed to be in Japan next year or year after and those are really helpful websites that will help me a lot.

By APOKALYPSE34 on August 21st, 2009 at 4:17 pm

Thanks for the …
Thanks for the heads up!

By KurzWebber on August 21st, 2009 at 4:17 pm

Yesh! Now to …
Yesh! Now to conquer my fears of trains!

I was just in Hong …
I was just in Hong Kong recently, and the MTR (underground train thing) system is one of the best in the world. really clean and efficient. and extremely cheap.

i got some footage and might be able to upload it!

By imdaman765 on August 21st, 2009 at 4:17 pm

when i was in japan …
when i was in japan whenever I tried to access google it always took me to the Japanese version, if I wanted to access an english google I would have to do a search on japanese google for google Canada, did you figure out how to get around this and go directly to googledotcom

By LifeInShiga on August 21st, 2009 at 4:17 pm

Nice to know! Thank …
Nice to know! Thank you sir. I hope to one day get the ever sought after iphone and that is a good bit of advice.

By ChemistInJapan on August 21st, 2009 at 4:17 pm

Ekikara is one of …
Ekikara is one of my favorite sites. Ekikara, Jorudan and Yahoo all have iPhone apps as well (Ekikara’s is not free though).

 

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