Kanazawa "At Home at Ryokan Service"
List of things to do before the trip
Here is a checklist of things to do before the trip:
- Bank account and VISA credit card activation
- Booking and Flight payment
- Passport Creation
- Hotel Reservations
- Complete daily program with detailed descriptions of travel destinations to be visited with any notes on how to reach them.
- Buy Japan Rail Pass
- Purchase medical insurance with direct refund
- Purchase adapter plugs
- Purchase phraseology and/or electronic translator
- Purchase dictionary (optional)
- Purchase guides and maps
- Purchase Netbook Computer
- Purchase a travel kit for computer (portable headphones, lan cable, mini usb mouse, ecc..)
- Buy Skype Credit (10 € are usually more than enough for 16 days of telephone calls)
- Purchase phone compatible with Japanese system
- Activating offer for international roaming at decent price (optional but recommended)
- Purchase camcorder(like this one: http://sanyo.com/xacti/english/products/vpc_hd2000/index.html with relative bag like this(tested in my Japan trip))
- Exchange 1000€ to Yen (for a 16 days trip flight days included)
- Hand luggage preparation (a backpack with 1 change of clothes + netbook + documents) (up to 8 kg with Finnair but it is good to see on the website of your airline what’s the charge limits)
- Hold luggage preparation (max 20kg usually) (clothes, shaver, alarm and any particular food and/or various medicines)
- (in case) Any medical certification for the transport of medicines for chronic diseases (to show the airport)
- A portable luggage scale …. that is a dynamometer (you can buy only one for all your group, it will be very useful before you return home)