EnglishFriendlyJapan - Bus & Train info!!

[Necromortis61]

I was thinking that if I moved to Japan I would be terrified of getting the train because I can't read Hirigana/Katakana or Kanji but thinking about it, I always look up my train or bus on the internet in England anyway.

[wailua1000]

Yes hyperdia has an iPhone app and an android app.

[jellybellyratz]

I have used Hyperdia - it is fantastic & enabled me to fully plan my trips without any other help. It is incredible.

[Nemesis093781]

Thank you for the great info.

[reshjuk]

Did you code that english friendly japan dot com website by yourself? Show us your cool coding skillz!

Now I'm wondering how do you make money out of it... goes to check out the site

[WorldCitizen06]

Great idea, a place to bridge the gaps that divide us. Definite "Like"! :D

[jdlgrishanne]

Who would anyone dislike this? Like they thought, "Oh no, I don't want people to know how to get around. How dare you show his to people!"

[MrKoize]

This is awesome! I'm going to tell all my gaijin friends about it. Thanks.

[Vivetal]

Last year I used Hyperdia almost everytime. Very handly website 5/5

[Dax893]

How long has that site been around? It would have helped tremendously the last time I was in Japan. Instead, I had to rely on my father-in-law to go places, and we only went when he said so.

[TheItsumaru]

I found it more than interesting man! That is so exciting for me to see this site and i plan on tweeting it and telling people i know about it. Awesome job!

[0jerd]

A single train ride from Tokyo to Kyoto costs at least 12,710 yen (incl. seat fee)? That's 115 euros or 166 dollars!

[pepkid]

I wanna go to Japan!

[sugarholic100]

hey, i was wondering on how hard it would be to get a job in japan as a game rewiever for magazines or stuff like that for a bilingual spanish/english speaking person? If you've got any info pm me please.

[travpathood]

it seems that creating an app for mobiles based on this English Friendly Japan site would make it much more useful....or maybe one exists?

[sajonaee]

its $135!!!! i wonder if people in japan earn a lot more money than the rest of the world to be able to afford that. or maybe they dont take it on a daily basis, or do they? i dont knw i m obviously a noob

[TheCasanovvaa]

@sajonaee GDP per capita Japan :$43,653 GDP per capita America: $47,132. They make less then americans on average ha. I guessing they do not take it often.

[ThomasAnthonyBowman]

How did you enjoy that BEAAA :))

[yaazyy]

Ugh. This would have been so useful when I was living in Japan!

[gateauxQ]

Thanks!! Going to Japan in the Spring for vacation, definitely going to be using this a lot for planning!!

[kua514]

as always.

Peace!

[kirisutonosubete]

Very handy! とてもべんりですね！ありがとう！

[blondecrazygaijin]

these are words.

[jmpow2]

Used that a many times on recent trips, it's excellent! Couple of tips:

1) Often there are multiple stations in one city eg Osaka tripped me up - be worth using google map when you're not sure too

2) if you're on a Japan Rail pass you can refine the search to not include NOZOMI & MIZUHO class trains which are not included on the pass (simple tick box)

[POLYGONMASTER3D]

wowwwwwwwww thanks so much =)

[Arceumon]

Awesome video.

[PungPhooie]

Can we please have one video where the comments aren't people whining about not being in Japan.

[MurdocLC]

@PungPhooie No.

[LogiForce86]

@PungPhooie Well, as you know "grass is always greener on the other side". Just let people fantasize a bit. Besides getting upset about someone else his or her comment is a choice you as a reader have. It's more simple to ignore the messages. Also there are almost 7 billion people on the world now and all of them have a wish to go some place on the globe they are interested in. So you can see it might be a bit hard to convince all of them to stop saying such things. ;)

[talkyr]

Great link =)

I found another useful link too on my visit it's called Japanese Train Route Finder by Jorudan.. it basically does the same thing but i think Hyperdia is a better one ;D

[pas7680]

anyone serious about going to japan will have already heard / used hypedia.

[blead40]

yay no 47 tumps up an 0 tump down ^^

[sweetfeat1]

So this is a link to Hyperdia not englishfriendlyjapan? lol...

[WABBITS8]

Briiliant! Cheers! Shame I didn't know about this when i went to Japan about three years ago!

[robertha]

great tool for my future trip

[nagaempress]

speaking of places how are the areas that were hit by the tsunami? Did they just shut off the towns or are they rebuilding? And what about the area that was hit with the radioactivity? Is there any concern about traveling around those areas now?

[McBeastyCakes]

Japan...... Only a few more years, and then you Mrs. Land of the Rising sun and I Mr. Ball shall live together in harmony :)

[t3hpyr0x]

Hyperdia's excellent. You just have to remember to remove flights, and, if you're using the JR rail-pass, to remove the Nozomi shinkansen, too.

[m3andchip5]

Ah I've used Hyperdia before when I went to Japan last year in Feb... very useful! :D

[Gell1welt69]

You rock! Thats so cool :)

[SakuraAvalonBleac25]

very cool tool :)

[mellowsky47]

I wish I lived in Japan also.

[Alliancez1]

If only i lived in japan :(

[oldschoolgamerz]

@Alliancez1 We can't all live in Japan you know. It would be good enough if you helped making your country a better place to live in.