PART 1 of Essential Things to know before travelling to Japan especially if this is your first time visiting Japan!

1) Card or Cash
Whilst there are heaps of places, shops, cafes and restaurants in big cities like Tokyo accept credit or debit card, we still recommend you to have some cash. Especially if you are travelling around small cities as lots of shops still accept cash only Withdraw from 7Eleven ATMs which available literally everywhere in Japan.

2) Google Maps are super powerful in Japan as in it tells you exactly how to get to place with train for example, tell you how much does the journey cost and even which platform or exit gates to take! Google Translate is surely very useful to roughly know what’s the Japanese writing js about, sometimes not 100% accurate but still useful☺ We can’t speak Japanese or understand Japanese but these two apps help us a lot, so don’t worry if you don’t understand Japanese! There are lots of English sign and English menu in the restaurants these days

3) Expect to queue everywhere in Japan especially famous places either food, shops, attractions etc. Some queues can be really crazy 2 hours for food so if there is booking system, book it in advance. You can ask your hotel concierge or someone who can speak Japanese to book over the phone too☎

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