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General holiday with baby questions
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2007/12/12 21:57
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We are visting Japan with a six month old in Feb and had a couple of daft questions.
Firstly baby food - my wife is paranoid about it, I'm guessing that its pretty easy to find a dept store that sells baby food and then roughly work out whats in it from the pictures. Is that right or would we need to learn some specific phrases for what we want?
Secondly the train pass, we are going everywhere by train, is it worth getting the first class upgrade?
Thirdly, how cold is cold, I'm expecting it to be about 1 or 2 degrees but does it feel worse than that i.e. very windy?
Finally are there any city passes that you can buy in advance that provide entry to all the main attractions in a city?
Our itinery is:
9th -10th Osaka
11th Himeji
12th Hiroshima
13th-17th Kyoto
18th Hakone
19th-24th Tokyo
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2007/12/13 09:46
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1,Baby food
- Don't worry. Pop into any of the drug stores or supermarkets in Japan, you will get more than enough there without worry.
2,The train pass
-The train pass for overseas tourists offers you a greencar reserved seat which is like the first class.
3,Temperature in winter
- Japan islands extend from the latitude 45deg north to 20deg north, so the temperature differs depending on where you are.
In kyoto and Hakone, you will feel quite chilly in the morning and night.
But in Osaka and Kobe, for example, you will not feel so cold as you anticipate.
4,City passes
- in Tokyo and other cities you can use the train pass for all JR trains so it is best to use as many JR lines as possible. But even if you take the subway lines, it will not cost you much.
Have a nice trip.
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by mamiko
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the green cars have seats that are a bit wider and with a bit more leg room but not so much that they are worth the big difference in price unless you are over 6ft 4 inches and/or weight over 250 lbs.
you can use your JR pass on the loop lines in both Osaka and Tokyo. these loop lines go trough the major neighbourhoods of these 2 towns. you may use subways to go to other places but this is not expensive. In Kyoto buses are the way to go to see most sites. I usually buy passes for one or several days at a tourist bureau or a railway station. please check the pages on transportation and passes in japan-guide.com (look at the heading on the top of the questions pages)
the February weather in the Kanto and Kansai areas is similar to the February weather in Western Europe (London, Paris)but with less rain. Not balmy but not horribly cold (you can also warm up in the huge department stores.)
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by Sensei 2
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just back from tokyo osaka w 5mo
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2007/12/14 00:26
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hi
we've just returned from japan- went to tokyo, osaka, kyoto & nara 1-9 dec.
admittedly, we didn't do much research before the trip. but this is what i felt:
1. hard to find supermarts
most dept stores dun seem to have a supermart attached to it.
2. hard to find baby basic stuff at dept stores
in my homeland SG, basics like diapers, baby wipes, lotions can be easily found at the baby depts at dept stores. but the ones we went to (isetan, takashimaya, sogo, mitsuokoshi) all had a very tiny baby care section. no diapers can be found there. at best, some baby changing rooms have vending machines for diapers and wipes.
therefore i did not see any/much baby stuff sold at the big stores. i brought along Huggies and was glad tt i did not spend time hunting for shops selling these things. i think we'll need to go to the local shops to get these things. the dept stores are filled with branded baby wear- think sonia rykiel, kill stuart, burberry etc
it wasn't very cold when we were there. hubby and i were sometimes only wearing 2 layers. baby was wearing 3 when outdoors shopping and 4 when outdoors sightseeing. it got really chilly when it's windy and we experienced tt mostly in osaka.
sorry can't help you on the train bit but we always travelled green car reserved seats.
hth
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by bedebe
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pack moisturiser for your baby
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2007/12/14 01:12
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my baby has sensitive skin and the cold weather really dried up her skin till it flaked. she screamed every bath-time :( so do bring along a rich moisturiser for your little one. (when i forgot to bring along her moisturiser one day and thot it'd be easy to pick up a bottle of baby lotion at some dept store- i could only find one bottle of baby oil at the dept store!)
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by bedebe
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