cruisedogiii
MemberWheelchair taxi in Akita City or Omagari
I’m heading to the Omagari Fireworks and have my accessible seat all lined up but need an accessible taxi for transportation. Does anyone have a suggestion? Thanks!
First time I was stopped by security 😰😵💫, but managed to get some pictures of the toilets at the new Kabukicho Tower.
alliejay and rohan10 CommentsView more commentsYou in Japan? Travelling? I am too.
Yeah the toilets are amazing and they’re everywhere. Even if a place doesn’t have a separate room for handicapped toilet, they have retrofitted one urinal and one cubicle with grab bars and stuff.- View 2 replies
Wait, why were you stopped by security?
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Effect of tactile paving on steering of a Whill powerchair
Understood. Don’t want to get you in trouble 😅 maybe you can give a short synopsis in a new post.
Yikes sounds like it would be difficult to get around without planning 😕
Effect of tactile paving on steering of a Whill powerchair
That sounds like a great article! Please share it with the group when it is published. 🙂 Actually, if you are interested in writing about your experience – particularly with rail – it would make for a very useful blog post on Accessible Japan. Let me know if you would be interested!
Also, we have a train group on tabifolk, Riding the Rails. …
Effect of tactile paving on steering of a Whill powerchair
You would think! But you would be surprised…
My (uneducated) guess is that they have some sort of “auto-assist” that senses the resistance of the bump and “helps” you over it. But in this case it launches you to the other side of the tactile blocks – very dangerous as you mentioned!
They really should warn people about this, and if there is…
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