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Mar 5, 2008 | 2:04 pm

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ttjoseph

Join Date: Jul 2006

Location: PHL

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Originally Posted by LapLap

This article may be of interest to you:

http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-b...0080113bs.html

This is a great article, thanks.

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Originally Posted by jib71

I love Japan's trains and other public transport... but I think that a car opens up a bunch of possibilities around Mt. Fuji and Yamanashi.

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Thanks for all this information! These things all sound like fun. I wonder how much we can fit into the remaining day after climbing down the mountain.

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Originally Posted by abmj-jr

Well - maybe - reading street and traffic signs in Japanese, reading road maps in Japanese, paying high tolls in Japanese (yen), buying $12.00/gallon gasoline - in Japanese, finding aforesaid gasoline - in Japanese.

I don't speak or read Japanese beyond what I'll be able to glean from phrasebooks before I leave. But I consider that part of the adventure

Wow, gasoline really costs $12/gallon? I thought it was more like $6: http://uk.reuters.com/article/oilRpt/idUKT3818820080130

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