General Information Charging your phone
Japan's Electrical Outlets (Plug type)Japan uses outlet type A at voltage of 100V and frequency of 50Hz/60Hz. Eastern Ja...
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Transportation Child Fare for Transportation
When you are travelling with your kids, you might wonder what are the Child Fare for the transportation? what are the ag...
Planning SUMO
Many people are interested in Sumo because it is so different from other sports. Sumo originally started as religious ce...
Shopping Japanese Cosmetics
My daughter (in her 20's) is a beauty freak and she helped me write this article. Major Japanese Cosmetic brand ranking【...
General Information Japan by regions
As you may already know, Japan is a country consisting of 4 main island (Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku and Kyushu) There are...
Language Useful Japanese phrases 2
Here are more useful Japanese expressions:1.Arimasuka? Do you have?2.Iidesuka? Is it OK?3.Doko? Where?4.Nandesuka? What ...
Transportation From Haneda/Narita Airport to Yokohama
When I ask people where do you think is the second largest city in Japan, many people reply "Osaka!" But actually, Yokoh...
Language Kanji（漢字）
Kanji 漢字Kanji is one of the writing system we use in Japan. Kanji was first introduced to Japan around 1st century from ...
Language Hiragana（ひらがな）
For hiragana, it can be written for things as well as helping words to make sentences. You cannot write Japanese sentenc...
Language Katakana（カタカナ）
I said there are three sets of writing in Japanese -- Hiragana, Katakana and KanjiThe easiest of the three letters is pr...