What’s new in Tokyo, News for Travelers to Hokuriku Region – March 2024 Japan Travel Update

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JR West site: https://www.westjr.co.jp/global/en/ticket/hokuriku-arch-pass/

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Hello friends have you today it’s March 2024 update about Japan travel I haven’t posted this monthly update since December and because generally there was a earthquake and February I just passed it so it will be a long time ago so I just to go over a little bit maybe

Overlap with the video that I was past two months or so and I also would like to what is a new update this is definitely a busy season so I can feel that many people start to come to Japan for CH blossom season in the previous

Video I talked about CH Blossom but CH blossom season is end of the March and in Tokyo it’s expected to bloom in March 18th which probably you can see the full bloom in the week of the March 25th so I’m there in kyotto usually to do 3 days

Later there a question but in K near M it can be one week later from Tokyo and spring is coming and in February many things open in Tokyo and the first one I went is already I made a video about the team of borderless it used to be in o in Tokyo

But now they moved to aaba in central Tokyo and I happen to be the first customer of the first day so I I had a lot of footage that I’m really walking by myself no where there’s nobody but uh I deleted all the footage accidentally

So I devastated but you know like uh I saw a comment that it’s really better not to see before you go so I decid to take advantage of that maybe you shouldn’t watch before you go maybe it was a sign that you I shouldn’t show too

Much because the point of the team of bers is discovering the new room and kind of surpris what it is like so actually the team of website also shows everything already but if you are there it’s obviously defined so it might be actually interesting not to see too much

Information and just go there too and also another thing open is the S Bandai which is a kind of a little shopping area in to Fish Market and there’s also hot spring area there and I went on weekend so it was so many people like a

1 hour wait for every stores so I happen to enter one store and eat but it really way too many people and this has lot of kind of in Japan media are talking about this is way too expensive for Japan standard so the TR from Hing country is called inbound and uh

The Bard is D so inbound D inbound it’s called as a ironic because price is definitely set for foring T and not something Japanese people pay for the fish bowl but you know that uh I went to and actually there lots of people going to those stores I think even there was a

Japanese people so obviously it’s you know the value for the price is defined so it might not be the most reasonable place but definitely I think I think there is a good quality thing there and one after this video will be about Tokyo guide video so i’ like to talk about

This thinga in that video too and something really big happened in this past month is the earthquake in hokiku and in the video I published in the first of this year there was a earthquake so there might be some Aftershock in kazawa and it might be it

Depend on your perception if you can go to kazwa or farther area but as of this point the area got severe damage of the earthquake just started recovery from the earthquake but canaza or hok area is also suffering from the lack of the tourist now so if you are interested in

The hok area it is recommended actually to go to the H area so even among Japanese people there are lot of different opinion like they should focus on the we should let them focus on the recovery from the earthquake but at the same time for all the areas that Canada

Didn’t get much impact they just don’t get any customer for uh even though they are okay so right now government is going to push the tourist to hokiku on March 16th hokiku Shin is going to extend from Canada to farther to tuuga station so

This will be a big change for H area and in this chance three prefectures of hok and including n prefecture which also got damage from the last quiek is going to have some government Aid if you go to travel but let me say fast but we don’t

Know all the information at this point and the budget is limited to 10 billion yen it’s like a fast fast basis so basically what it is is you can get 50% off from your hotel price and maximum 20,000 y per person for example if you stay at the luxury duam which is

Including two meals and hot springs and that is 880,000 Yen you can get 40,000 Yen discount so you can stay for 40,000 Yen and this reservation start from March 8th because during the closure of the border the government did a lots of similar thing and we could travel for

The very good price for different places in Japan and that was only for residents in Japan even in foring people living in Japan could use it but it was for residents in Japan but this one officially the site says it’s including the V to Japan from foreign countries so

It’s mostly appli to all of my viewers but thing is we don’t know how to make reservation yet so probably from the past experience portal site travel portal site like in Japan Jan L for example in America like Experia book. booking.com if you book through there you automatically get or also there must

Be a way that you direct you to the hotels from the hotel p usually the return price is the full price so when you check out you have to make sure it applied the 50% off it applied and from the past experience not all the plan are applicable for it and

They set a special price plan that are applicable for the discount and government Aid and they are starting new website on March 11th so 8th or 11th I’d like to put the link to the either on the on this disc Des on this video description I’ll edit on March 11th and

Also I put on my Instagram and also YouTube community so you can check it out so when it come to the hokiku the popular Regional pass for the train was the hokiku arch pass so now that the J pass raised the price in last October

The only pass that you can TR both Tokyo and Osaka area is the H Arch pass and they’re going to raise price on March 16th to to 30,000 yen right now it’s 24,500 if you purch from a foreign agency like look if you purch on J West reservation site it’s

25,500 Y in this pass you can drop by at different areas along that rout it’s called kind of behind kind of golden rout and there Nagano Toyama kanazi and go TOA and you can use for airport Access from Kaner airport to Osaka kto and night airport to Tokyo too and you

Can enjoy the unlimited ride for 7 days to Route so if you just travel regularly it’s more expensive it’s so it’s definitely still a good way to purchase and this one you cannot use the route from Tokyo to CTO on tokaido Shin which is a major golden Loot and when it come

To shansen and uh when it come to the shansen reservation I often talk about the ex service on the my channel so I recently get lot of comments at ex service is not working with the crate card so and obviously people worry that it’s their crate card problem but it’s

Have too many comment about the same issue so I asked the question on the YouTube community and so I time to time post the YouTube Community the question or poll and every everyone can answer the questions or both so please join if you see it so I got 33 comments and uh

21 people people succeeded to use it and 12 people couldn’t succeed to register to ex service and but even among the 21 successed people some of them failed with sever different card and they had to change credit card so that means almost half people experiencing that

They could register to ex service so the big number was from United States Canada and Australia but U I’m J Center is a big company and uh unfortunately there not much I can can do about it but U and from all the comments there are some tendencies that a mix could work or

Master could walk and some people really didn’t have any problem so it is more about a security process that each card are using so one person commented they contacted the J Center but they didn’t know what to do so obviously we don’t know what to do so maybe it’s good idea

If you you can use ex service it’s great but if if you can’t you might want to look for substitute like either just purchase the counter here or use another online reservation system and for specifically for to sinkers and the service that you can use is J West

Reservation that you can assign the seat from Tokyo to Kyoto and as long as I know this will be the only service that you can assign the seat from the seat map except the service also another two website allows you to make reservation for Shas and which is one is the clook

Site and second is a recently the they started kind of Japan buet train this is a kind of website kind of Na time which is known for the kind of map service or routing service that I S introducing in this channel also the inbound platform that a company called also operat Japan

Wireless started together so that is a Japan bullet TR and you can make reservation and I put the site of this new Japan BL TR on the description so please check the site thank you for watching I hope you have a great spring trip have a great trip to Japan have a

Great week the next video