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I rented from Toyota at Kawaguchiko. I also rented from ToCoo elsewhere and while Toyota costs approx 25% more, their GPS is much much better and since you'll be in the countryside, and I assume like me you don't speak much Japanese, you surely don't want to get lost and waste time. The ToCoo GPS was no good for off-beat sites in the countryside (major sites in Kyoto or Takayama were ok in our experience), so I strongly suggest you choose Toyota. Their branch is about 10 mins walk from Kawaguchiko station. You exit stn, turn right, keep going til interserction and bear right til you see a petrol station with Toyota sign (small sign) on opposite side of road. Note Toyota staff there speak very little English but we managed ok as the only thing you need to ask them is how to input the telephone no. of your destination into the GPS which you'll need to research BEFORE your arrival. Do this and you'll have no problems at all, just like we did. By the way, we returned the car in Kofu, which is less than 50 kms away so no drop charge and the Toyota shop there is right opposite the JR stn where you can get direct trains to Shinjuku. There are great peach orchards and other sites between Kawaguchiko and Kofu. There's also a tourist info located just outside Kawaguchiko stn but again little English is spoken but they should be able to direct you to the Toyota shop. This Toyota tel in Tokyo have good English speaking staff and you should keep this no. handy at all times: 813-5954-8020.
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