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Also agree on split stay and suggest having the majority of your luggage couriered to your post-TDR hotel.

We had someone help us on our first trip and found their services to be invaluable, Not sure if links are allowed here but if you google Be Here Asia and then click on the first result there‘s lots of good info.

^ So jealous and happy for you! We visited once as well in 2018 and would jump at the opportunity to move to Japan. Congrats!

One of the things we learned the hard way was taking a lot of luggage on the trains. What worked better was using a courier service. Or if it was just a couple days back and forth take a weekend bag and leave most of the luggage at the departure hotel and pick it up after.

We totally feel the frustration too! A centerpiece to our lives was planning the next big trip. We should have been just getting back from a 3 week trip to Japan which was a couple years in the planning. Now it’s truly one day at a time. My guess is the Olympics will happen in 2021 with...

It sounds like there are a lot of things still up in the air on how/if tourists will be allowed to visit come April: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/05/national/japan-entry-ban-foreign-tourists/ It would seem likely TDR will need to wait until the specifics are worked out?

^ Totally relate! We’re hoping by mid to late 2022 Japan’s tourism industry will be close to back to normal.

And available in the US App Store! Reason for hope! TDR Explorer has a really good TR of their July 1st visit.

We have a friend in Tokyo who helps plan our trips to Japan. A couple of months back I expressed hope things would be better by the fall and her response was “Mark, this is a long distance marathon, not a sprint.” And she is very much in favor of our subsequent decision to postpone our trip to...

Excellent question! It turns out what United issued us is a travel certificate valid through May 2022. Not sure if it’s ok to post a link but a search for United Travel Certificate brings up all the details. As far as we can see the only restriction is it is limited to United flights only, so...

We just canceled our trip to Japan/TDR for this October-November. The main reason is the potential of a COVID-19 resurgence in the fall. Our hotel reservations were all no penalty cancel and United gave us a full credit voucher for another booking up to two years from now. Everyone has their...

Hopefully in a couple of years which is the earliest we’ll be going. My guess is they’ll have an English app released in time for the rescheduled olympics.

This is awesome news! Thank you for sharing!!

We got skunked too, got all the way to entering payment and the transaction screen spun for hours. Now foolishly looking at all the eBay listings at 2-5x retail and feeling incredibly sad. I wish no one would buy off eBay!

The unknown of COVID-19 is the most worrisome thing right now. Last I heard there have been three deaths attributed to the virus outside of China. Comparatively there are tens of thousands of deaths each year from influenza A/B in the US alone, some years the rates being within a few tenths of...

If this hasn’t been mentioned already enrolling with STEP is definitely worth doing. https://step.state.gov/STEPMobile/Default.aspx

Google translate says it’s tea or knee lint lol.

How exciting! Did you try using the camera function on the Google Translate app?

Where if at all does Soarin’ fit in?

Agree! Apologies if I missed it earlier in your posts but what camera are you using?