Why You Need to Rent a Cell Phone While Traveling in Japan

This article is one of the most important tips that you know before you should come to Japan. Why? You do not want a surprise vacation or business trip to Japan. The fact is – the cell phone you brought with you from your own country, is likely not to work in Japan. If you want to be on the safe side, even if you come for 2-3 days, you should rent a phone in Japan.

The reasons are technical, and I will spend a short time in one minute. But first I want to point out that the problem of mobile telephony is not confined to rural areas, away from a place in Japan. Your cell phone functionality is not guaranteed, even in places like Tokyo, Kyoto and Osaka.

Rent a mobile phone while in Tokyo is the best way to solve this problem. Now you are probably asked … How to rent a cell phone in Japan?

Mobile phone companies have kiosks at the airport in Narita, while other companies post a phone number to your hotel. Leasing is easy and only requires a photo ID and credit card. Leasing is also a reasonable price. You can use the phones at the end of your holiday back at the airport or in the mail, the company said. The fee for the rental of mobile phones on the rent per day plus taxes.

Reasons for the main technical reasons, because the Japanese PDC system works by telephone, while based in North America and Europe, mobile systems on the GSM standard. However, it is best to your local service provider before arriving in Japan, contact to verify if, if your phone is compatible with the Japanese network.

Another possibility is a SIM card (from a Japanese supplier to rent). In this case, you can use your own phone with a phone number from Japan and lower rates.

Book Your Japan Package Holidays to Tokyo at the Cheapest Price

Holidays in Japan

Holidays in Japan, flights, hotels and rental cars can be expensive, around the country to change the rising sun. Japan is an island country in East Asia, Pacific Ocean, the four large islands of Honshu, Hokkaido, Kyushu and Shikoku. The island itself has four occupy 97% of the land area of Japan. Japan’s highest mountain, Mount Fuji is a volcano located west of Tokyo. The capital of Japan, Mount Fuji symmetrical cone is a famous symbol of Japan, and he is an artist and a favorite subject of photographers and visitors and climbers.

The amazing city of Tokyo

Tokio Hotel on the east coast of Honshu with a population of over 12 million people, also known as Saskia Sassen, a center of the three types of contracts for the world economy, with London and New York City described. Tokyo is also identified as the most expensive city in the world to the high cost of living rocket. Playing alongside the global economic problem Tokyo also has an important role in tourism, shopping, entertainment and hot spring, while it is certainly easy to loads of Tokyo, Japan package tours available.

The World’s Best City

Despite the limited space to create a harmonious living, Tokyo is always regarded as one of the safest cities in the world with a minimum amount of crime and violence. The Japanese are most active in Japan, where they help strangers, industrious and honest as. If you love art, performance, and traditional culture. Tokyo offers a wide selection of museums, theaters, Sumo, and the collection of Japanese art.

What is the ideal time to visit?

Are you ready to book your package holiday in Japan? If you are planning a visit to Japan, I tell you that the best time between spring from March to May, when the cherry blossoms bloom shop is to create the best atmosphere around you. Try to avoid it, from late April to early May because of Golden Week, the city where you will find their doors closed. Save your money booking package holidays in Japan to lower prices and use it on other things during your vacation. Enjoy your holiday!

Seismic Activity in and Around Tokyo, Japan

Greater Tokyo is the intersection of three tectonic plates (Philippine Plate, the Eurasian plate and the North American Plate) and one of the most seismically active regions of the world. This region was called the Ring of Fire. On average, an earthquake felt every day. Most, however, are negligible.

Some, however, are extremely virulent: 1 September 1923 kills, the great Kanto earthquake, more than 140,000 people and has almost 2 million people homeless. Its size was measured at 7.9 on the Richter scale. This phenomenon can be explained if the three tectonic plates of the lack of inertia, has published an excessive accumulation of energy, and once in motion, was the source of the devastating earthquake. When all three plates were colliding, which is not realistic, but possible, the energy would be released, so nothing to resist destruction.

According to the research group of Tokyo-team, a strong earthquake occurs every 400 years. It would 0th 5% chance that such a quake will occur within 30 years. It would, however, 30% chance that a less violent earthquake that will cause significant damage occurs in the same period continues. The earthquake has been the most violent in recent years, in 2005 and was a magnitude 5.9 on the Richter scale, panic but no injuries and only moderate damage.

Tokyo has the latest technological advances in the prevention of the earthquake, such as high-tech building on gigantic steel springs are based most of the seismic waves absorb, and the risk of collapse. Despite these devices, the strength of an earthquake would cause great turn seven losses, both human and material.

Tokyo, Japan – Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden

If you are in Tokyo, Japan, and want some of the most beautiful parks in Tokyo that offers, remember, Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden visit experience. Located in Shibuya and Shinjuku, this large park with a flamboyant garden. During the Edo period, this park, the residence of the Naito family was very rich. Finally, the Imperial Household Agency of Japan, he took over and changed the residence of a park. Currently, the national jurisdiction of the Ministry of Environment beautiful parks.

The National Park is home to some gardens have been the imperial gardens. The gardens are accessible only by royalty and were completed 1906th These gardens have unfortunately been lost and destroyed in 1945. They were destroyed during the Second World War.

Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden Gardens are fifty-eight hectares and has a circumference and a half miles away. In gardens, they mix different styles of gardens. There are clear influences of the English countryside, the traditional Japanese and classical French. With more than twenty thousand and fifteen hundred cherry trees, the park provides opportunities amazing photo. The flowering cherry trees in late March to April. These are the best times to take pictures with the mixture of green vegetables, orange, red, pink bear. Some trees in the park are: plane trees, cypresses, tulip trees and the majestic Himalayan cedars.

The contrast of the garden from the bustle of Tokyo is a great experience. Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden offers a pleasant and quiet alternative for your trip to Tokyo to relax.

Tokyo, Japan – The History of Tokyo

In feudal times, the current prefecture of Tokyo is part of the province of Musashi, to be exact. After the defeat of persons who led Toyotomi Hideyoshi in 1590, he, the nine provinces of the Kanto region to select the little village of Edo, which was centered around a castle built in 1457 to serve as the capital of the field.

He was Shogun Ieyasu after the Battle of Sekigahara in 1600 and became the de facto political center of Japan, opening, what historians call the Edo period. Even if Kyoto is still officially the capital, as the residence of the Emperor. All women and their son lived in Edo. The city quickly became a large population density, despite a major fire in 1657 which destroyed much of the city and killed almost 100,000 people.

In July 1868, after the Meiji revolution, Edo Mutsuhito Emperor chose a new residence within the city, which today in Tokyo, the capital of the East. In 1871 the Tokyo Metropolitan Group was formed, and the city that was previously divided into 15 districts, has become a metropolis.

In 1943, the city of Tokyo merged and became the Tokyo metropolitan prefecture (Tokyo-to create). The city of Tokyo is over, its districts, reorganized into 23 districts existing special and distinct communities.

The prefecture was investigated painful in the first half of the twentieth century, first in the Kanto earthquake of 1923 (142 dead and 807 missing), and it has a number of bomb attacks during the Second World War, survived (more than 100,000 dead). Much was destroyed in the city during the two disasters that require a major renovation, why, says while retaining a number of historical monuments, most of the city has developed a very modern architecture.

The 1964 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, which resulted in the construction of numerous infrastructure (including roads and transport). Then the city a phenomenal growth during the economic boom of the 1960s in Japan (10% of the average economic growth per year), experienced in 1970 (an increase of 5%) and 1980 (4%), the town area, the largest in the world in terms of population, now far beyond the borders of the prefecture and the full adoption of the neighboring prefectures of Kanagawa, Saitama and Chiba in part one.

Levi Campaign Gets Japanese Models to Wiggle Their Butts

Levi’s promoted their new jeans range Curve ID by getting 30 Japanese models to dance in the window of a high rise in Tokyo. They’re spelling out a message with their wiggling, so if you don’t get it first time, you’ll just have to keep watching those butts move. Concentrate now!

You can share with the HipMail service too, which allows you to get your message to a friend translated into a video sequence of butt-wriggling…

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Indonesian House with Built In Concrete Slide

We’re loving the design of this house near Jakarta, designed by Indonesian architects Aboday. It incorporates an internal spiral concrete slide so that the family kid can get down to the kitchen from his bedroom in double quick time..

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Hello Kitty Figure Mashups

Hello Kitty invades popular culture as artist Joseph Senior from New Zealand turns her into a number of different but recognisable characters.

More here

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Kyoku Sake Infused Shave Cream

Saké in your shaving cream? Forget slurping in the morning. Apparently, the saké softens and moisterises the skin. Get some in the form of Kyoku Sake Infused Shave Cream.

Buy at Grooming Lounge

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Li Wei’s Flying People

Previously posted Beijing artist Li Wei is back with more of his impossible photos. This time, his subjects take flight.

Check out more on Li Wei’s website

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Zhang Ziyi by Artist Serge Birault

We’re loving this portrait piece of Zhang Ziyi by risqué fantasy artist Serge Birault. Has a certain je ne sais quoi.

Check out more of Serge’s work on his website

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Colourful Japanese Manhole Covers

CNNGo looks into the work of artist and photographer Remo Camerota who has taken lovely shots of Japan’s famed manhole and utility covers for his book Drainspotting.

‘Drainspotting’ in Japan: The lowest form of art

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Artwork from Old Skateboard Decks

We’re loving these pieces of sculpture by designers Harumaki and Hirosher, who make them out of old pieces of skateboard decks. The multi-coloured laminates work beautifully and are on display in the Skate and Destroy exhibition in Tokyo.

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Lumine to arrive in Ginza Seibu Bldg

Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Lumine to compete with Marui in the Ginza/Yurakucho district. Brands selection will be the key issue for Lumine…

Mall Operator Lumine In Talks For Seibu Bldg In Central Tokyo

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Sogo & Seibu To Launch Zara In Suburban Stores – Friday, September 3, 2010

Well, I guess it is the only way for these local department stores to survive… but what will happen to all the existing brands that are in these stores ?

TOKYO (Nikkei)–Sogo & Seibu Co. plans to invite fast-fashion powerhouse Zara and other major specialty stores to set up shop inside of four regional and suburban department stores this fall.

The Seven & i Holdings Co. (3382) unit hopes to attract young consumers amid a continuing slump in Japan’s department store industry.

On Sept. 22, Zara will begin operations inside a Seibu store in Yokohama’s Totsuka district. With a floor space of about 750 sq. meters, this will be one of the largest shops of any kind inside a department store.

Sogo department stores in Kawaguchi, Saitama Prefecture, and in Tokushima will introduce household goods stores operated by group firm Loft Co.

And a Seibu store in Takatsuki, Osaka Prefecture, will invite group firms Tower Records Japan Inc. and Akachanhonpo, a baby products retailer, to set up shop.

Sogo & Seibu is moving to improve efficiency at regional and suburban stores through such steps. At the same time, it is focusing management resources on large stores in major cities.

(The Nikkei Sept. 3 morning edition)

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