MemberBeatrice
MemberReply to Shinkansen and general train/metro questions
We came back from Japan 2 weeks ago with a power wheelchair and we experienced a lot trains and Shinkansen, here are some simple tips :
– if you plan several journeys with Shinkansen, prepare a document with all the departures and arrival locations and times, and just go to a Shinkansen office (we went in Tokyo Station) and give the…
Reply to JR Pass - Shinkansen wheelchair reserved seat
UPDATE and FINAL RESULTS : we are back from Japan, and Shinkansen booking was really much more easy than we thought. We went directly to a Shinkansen Ticket office in Tokyo Station at 9:30 AM, with the document we carefully prepared with our 4 journeys on the Shinkansen : Tokyo > Kyoto, Kyoto > Hiroshima (and back the same day), and Kyoto…
Reply to JR Pass - Shinkansen wheelchair reserved seat
UPDATE and NEW QUESTION : if we need to go to the “Midori no Madoguchi” to get the Shinkansen tickets and seats (finally we don’t use JR Pass), I found on the web that is only open at 10:00 AM. Is this real or can we go to an office in Tokyo Station earlier in the morning ? Even if we have to come back later, after the employee made the…
power wheelchair flat tyre or puncture
Hello all,
we are coming to Japan in a month now, and I ask myself some questions.
Last year I put plain tyres to my chair to avoid any puncture problem during our trip.
This year, we go to Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka, Nara and Hiroshima. So it will probably be a little more bumpy, and less confortable with plain tyre that feel really hard when driving…
Reply to metro and train outside of Tokyo with power wheelchair
Hello,
thanks for the tips !
We are searching a wheelchair accessible taxi service in Kyoto that can handle my Permobil M3 Corpus, but it seems difficult to find.
Any good company or service to recommand ?
Thanks again for all,
Regards,
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