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Getting
Around Tokyo by Subway - Train - Bus - Taxi
Tokyo has an excellent subway and
rail system. It may appear complicated - and it is - at first glance, but
there are many English publications available to help you. The single most
important publication for travel in Tokyo and Japan is the Jikokuhyo
- A Book of Timetables published every month by Japan Travel Bureau
(JTB). Although published in Japanese there is a short schedule published
in English.
Go to any English bookstore or any JTB
office and ask for the
Eigo no Jikanhyo - literally means book of schedule's
in English!
General Information for the Subways: Tokyo
Metro and Toei.
http://www.kotsu.metro.tokyo.jp/util/english/
TEITO RAPID TRANSIT AUTHORITY (TRTA) - Tokyo Metro subways
http://www.tokyometro.go.jp/e/
Transportation Guides for Tokyo
http://www.tourism.metro.tokyo.jp/english/access_top.html
An Interactive Flash animation of the Tokyo Subway
http://www.tokyometro.go.jp/network/map_english.html
Japan Railways - JR
The famous JR Yamanote line encircles the central Tokyo. There provide a very
detailed map worth downloading and printing:
Japan Rail Pass
A pass can only be bought outside of Japan. Recommended if you are planning frequent
trips outside of Tokyo or will be simply be in Tokyo for a long time, using the
trains extensively.
How to Read and Understand a Street Address in Japan
Learn about how the very complicated street location and addressing system
in Japan. Remember most street addresses for buildings do not follow a chronically
number sequence. For example, you could find side by side street addresses that
do not follow a logical path, i.e. 1250, 1257, etc.Most buildings have a number
associated from how new the building, so you could run into a series of streets
address like, 123, 569, etc.
Also, some streets do not have names at all, furthermore, particular intersections
of minor streets have names, not the actual streets that create the intersection!!
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