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The average cab driver serving Shibuyaeki might be different (and less helpful) than one out in XXXXX. I also think that they have no clue about the local area and would be helpless without GPS; i.e. they are not local cab drivers. Many of them around Shibuyaeki have Nerima or Adachi, or even Tama license plates.
Originally Posted by
NewbieRunner
I'm not O Sora but if I may add my 2 yen...
Most of my taxi rides are between a JR station in the western suburbs of Tokyo and my mother's house. I tell them the destination is to the north of a large danchi every local taxi driver should know. There are two or three routes they can take and some of them ask which way I want them to go. When we get close to the destination there's no way they can find the place unless I give them turn by turn instructions.
On the way to the JR station I leave them to choose the route but tell them exactly where I want to be dropped (in front of a pachinko parlor and not at the taxi rank) so I don't have to go up steps to enter the station.