17 Must Know JAPAN Travel Tips (and what NOT to do) 🇯🇵

we recently visited Japan for the very first time we went along the most popular tourist

route which is the golden route from Tokyo to Kyoto to Osaka and it's safe to say that Japan

did not disappoint but there were a lot of things that we leared along the way that we wish we had

known before traveling to Japan now with the upcoming cherry blossom season I'm sure there

are many of you watching this who are traveling to Japan and so we thought we'd put together a video

going through the things that we wish we had known before traveling to Japan so that you don't make

the same mistakes we made number one what are the best times to visit Japan now there are two

seasons in particular one we've already mentioned which is the cherry blossom season that happens

between the months of March and may now the reason why everyone's coming enjoying this period is to

witness the blooming cherry blossoms of course and the Beautiful pink flowers and it's actually

a very comfortable temperature it's not too hot it's not too cold so it's ideal time to visit but

the downside of that is that it can get extremely busy because everyone wants to come during this

season now the second season is Autumn or fall that's when we actually came to Japan in the month

of November and these months are from October to November and I would say the start of December and

this is when you get to witness the very beautiful autumn colors the red and Golden Leaves of the

maple trees and that was absolutely stunning for us to witness again comfortable temperatures and

downside of that is is that it can get extremely busy especially on the golden route now that you

know the best times to visit Japan what are the worst times so the months that I would avoid

are late June to early September it is extremely hot it's extremely humid and it rains a lot they

even have the typhoon season between the months of August and early September so you definitely

don't want to be planning your dream destination to Japan during this period number three do you

need cash in Japan or can you get away with using a debit or credit card and the answer to that

question is that you very much still need cash in Japan so actually what we did when we arrived at

the airport we went to the ATM and we withdrew in between 200 and $300 us and uh we always use our

travel card so there is no fees associated and we also don't like to keep cash on us so whenever you

need you just can go to 7-11 and you can withdraw money there and there was also no fees yes there

no fees if you withdraw from 7-Eleven is very con venient and the reason why you need cash is that

to our surprise actually we found that actually eating at restaurants and small mom and pop shops

and even getting food at like kind of street food areas you needed cash and so when people say that

Japan is like cashless it very much isn't so the best way to approach this is to have a combination

of a travel card some cash and a squeaker card which brings us swiftly on to point number four

which is how do you take local transport so you want to be getting yourself a SUICA card so when

we arrived at Narita Airport at the train station we got ourselves a Welcome SUICA now there's a few

different variations of squeaker card the welcome Saker lasts 30 days and that's the one we got and

we topped up with I think 10,000 uh which is the maximum amount and we were traveling for about 3

weeks and you can actually use the weer card also at convenience stores and also vending machines so

that's the amount that we kind of topped up our card now there is another SUICA that actually

lasts I think up to 10 years and you can get them at the train stations it's like a more of a green

looking squeaker card and the good thing about that is that you can actually redeem your balance