Some introductions...
Our motorhome for 30 days
We shall shortly be setting off on our second trip to Japan. Our first Japanese tour was in 2014 and you can find out about that elsewhere on The Motorhome Diaries.
W are hiring our motorhome from a small company run by two Polish guys who have settled in Japan. JapanCampers.com The vehicle looks quite large in this photo but by European standards its quite small but plenty big enough for our needs on this journey. The company does other smaller vehicles to suit all wallets.
We are flying KLM via Amsterdam into Narita Airport in Tokyo. There is another airport called Haneda which is closer to the city centre but we want Narita as that is closer to our motorhome pickup point. Our flight time is 11 hours and Japan is 8 hours ahead of UK.
When we tell people we have been to Japan they often ask if we have visited all the islands and this question illustrates just how little most of us know about Japan, the main island is Honshu and this is larger than Great Britain, so we only have 30 days we shall settle for central and northern Honshu.
The next question we are asked is about the language but its not a problem. Though we have a few words of Japanese we get by, with the help of Google translate -use the camera facility that translates automatically. We found people generally very helpful when they see a couple of aged gaijin (means outside people) looking a bit lost.
Before we pick up our motorhome we shall spend a few days in Tokyo which is the 9th largest city in the world with well over 30 million people (London is 21st). On our first trip we got a taste of the place and loved it so we're staying longer this time but we wont see it all but visit some of the tourist sites and taste some marvellous street food.
W are hiring our motorhome from a small company run by two Polish guys who have settled in Japan. JapanCampers.com The vehicle looks quite large in this photo but by European standards its quite small but plenty big enough for our needs on this journey. The company does other smaller vehicles to suit all wallets.
We are flying KLM via Amsterdam into Narita Airport in Tokyo. There is another airport called Haneda which is closer to the city centre but we want Narita as that is closer to our motorhome pickup point. Our flight time is 11 hours and Japan is 8 hours ahead of UK.
When we tell people we have been to Japan they often ask if we have visited all the islands and this question illustrates just how little most of us know about Japan, the main island is Honshu and this is larger than Great Britain, so we only have 30 days we shall settle for central and northern Honshu.
The next question we are asked is about the language but its not a problem. Though we have a few words of Japanese we get by, with the help of Google translate -use the camera facility that translates automatically. We found people generally very helpful when they see a couple of aged gaijin (means outside people) looking a bit lost.
Before we pick up our motorhome we shall spend a few days in Tokyo which is the 9th largest city in the world with well over 30 million people (London is 21st). On our first trip we got a taste of the place and loved it so we're staying longer this time but we wont see it all but visit some of the tourist sites and taste some marvellous street food.
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