Kanazawa "At Home at Ryokan Service"
List of things to have when you leave from home
The following is a list of material to have during the trip.
Is recommended to do a verification of the availability of this materials at least 2 days before departure, to have time to fix any shortcomings.
I suggest to make a mental simulation of travel to waste less time possible during your holiday.
The quantity of clothes in the list is calculated for a 16 days trip in summer.
During the trip (to have the material):
- Credit Card VISA
- Blood type note, medical certificates
- Wallet with a few euros (or your money type) and yen you have exchanged
- Keys of your house
- Camera pocket (where you also put in your passport in order to have both always easily available)
- Baggage: backpack with:
- 1 change of clothes (1 pair of pants, 1 pair of socks, shirt, long pants, a sweater)
- Netbook with Ethernet cable and computer travel kit
- adapter plugs
- Electronic Tickets for the flight
- Documents photocopy (passport)
- Guides and Maps
- Telephone numbers and addresses of embassies, medical insurance, location to visit.
- Hotel reservations notes and related business cards (for use in case of emergency for the taxi)
- Japan Rail Pass (exchange order)
- various essential food : dry bread, crackers, chocolate, for at least 12 hours of autonomy
- paper handkerchiefs
- disinfectant napkins
- Portable compass (preferably small, plastic)
- pen and notepad
- K-Way
- phrase book and/or electronic translator
- (in case) Eyeglasses
- empty plastic bags
- patches
- thermometer
- Drugs (ask your doctor): Antipyretic (such as paracetamol), antivomit, intestinal antibiotic, broad-spectrum antibiotic, dissenten, milk enzymes (in bag to dissolve in water). Any medicines for chronic diseases (with certificate to be submitted to security checks at the airport).
- Hold luggage(max 20 kg) (LABEL ADDRESSES WITH HOTELS IN JAPAN AND HOME. On the way to the address of the first hotel in Japan and to return to home)
- 16 Briefs
- 16 pairs of socks
- deodorant
- shower gel (optional)
- 2 towels
- 1 sweater
- 14 shirts (t-shirt or polo)
- 3 long sleeve shirts
- 3 underwear shirts
- 2 Long pants
- 2 Shorts
- 10 cotton handkerchiefs
- paper handkerchiefs
- comb
- travel toothbrush
- travel toothpaste
- Subways maps and daily routes
- Travel power supply for the phone
- Power supply of camcorder
- documents photocopy, including details of medical insurance
- List or trains and train timetables to be taken on different days
- Portable luggage scale
- electric shaver with its power supply
- Passport
- Video camera and/or photo camera
- Specific mobile phone for Japan
Remember that hand luggage will be very heavy in the going trip but later returning from Japan and during the daily trips within Japan will be much lighter.
About the hold luggage, if you are able to minimize the number of hotels you will make the trip more enjoyable because you will have not to bring many kilos of luggage with you.