Reply to Advice about travelling with some mobility issues in Japan
@Trish Hi Trish-san,
What a wonderful trip to Japan with your mother! We wish that you will be able to make it happen!
Tokyo, Mt Fuji, Kanazawa, Takayama, Tsumago, Shirakawa-go, Kyoto, Osaka… I think many of the full-time wheelchair users who gather on this site have probably visited these places.
Of course, we also travel to these…
Reply to Advice about travelling with some mobility issues in Japan
I’m sort of answering your question sideways, but: there are services in Japan that you can pay to deliver your luggage so that you don’t have to deal with it all yourself! It’s obviously more expensive, so that’s a trade off.
There are also coin lockers at many train stations — my plan for my upcoming trip, since we’re flying in and out of…
Advice about travelling with some mobility issues in Japan
My mother is 80 and has a bad knee. She walks with a cane but obviously she cannot walk fast or long distances or do stairs easily. But she does manage slowly. She has given up on the idea of travelling because she doesn’t want to hold us up.
I am currently planning a trip to Japan with my 2 sons (young adults in their 20’s) and would…
Our tours are so good even Dracula is waiting for us to come pick him up!
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Reply to Disability certificate and mobility scooter
Just to add to these answers, you can also use this site to look up stations and see if scooters (sometimes referred to as “handle-type electric/power wheelchairs”) are allowed at that station.
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