spring and autumn--it's very comfort.

summer--It's hot and high humidity except high grounds and northern part of Japan. In the big city as Tokyo, they have a heat-island phenomenon so it is hot even in night. But air-condition systems are widespread among such a place so you can sleep well in hotel.

winter--Areas along the Japan sea we have much snow and at the opposite side we have few snow and it is very dry. In both sides it is cold, but at the southern part of Japan for example Okinawa, it is warm.

Exchange
You can change money at banks in cities or airports with the indication "Authorized money changer", but it is difficult to find bank to change money at train stations so you had better change money to buy tickets before arriving at a station.

Places where you can draw some JAPAN YEN with your credit card/s that were issued outside of Japan.
If you know some places for this issue, please tell us to
info@hakubajapan.com

Deutsche Bank Tokyo branch

address:12-1 Toranomon 3cho-me Minatoku Tokyo

phone:03-5401-6883

Kamishiro post office

At the lower right in this map. ATM available from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Mons - Fris except national holidays. Not available on Sats, Suns and national holidays.

Price level

If it's for living temporaly or permanentally in Tokyo, it is still expensive but if it's just travelling around or visiting some places, nowadays we can say it's not so expensive compared with before. Especially ski passes are cheap enough compared with in Australia, United states etc. Accommodations, lunch etc are also not so expensive. You might say transportations are still expensive but they are clean, comfortable and punctual in Japan.

Foods

Some of non-Japanese people say "Foods in Japan is very unique." We eat our own foods in our own way and sometimes eat Chinese foods, Korean foods, Italian Foods, French Foods and etc. We recommend you to try Japanese foods such as Sushi, Tenpura and others. Sushi is as following: Topping raw fish on a bite-size of a lump of rice mixed with sour and sugar and put a few japanese horseradish between raw fish and rice. We guess that almost all non-Japapanese people have no custom to eat raw fish, so it is difficult for you to put sushi into your mouth. But please try! It is healthy foods because sushi contains few fat and much protein. As japanese horseradish makes your nose on fire, sushi may be an exciting foods. Sometimes you may drop tears by japanese horseradish.

House number

This is probably one of the hardest thing for non-japanese people to used to with. Perhaps in most countries house numbers are shown like ***** street # like below.

If that South avenue was in a town named ( for exapmple)
Greenyard, perhaps house numbers are shown something like

Is this description correct?

But in Japan, it never works. Usually house numbers in cities in Japan are shown along squares like below.

First of all, all the streets do not always have names. Perhaps only some main streets have names for them. If this town was called " Midorimachi (= Green town)", the red house is called as " Midorimachi 1cho-me 2 banchi 8" or simply "Midorimachi 1-2-8". The green house is called as "Midorimachi 2cho-me 4 banchi 11" or simply "Midorimachi 2-4-11"

And additional, each and every square has some small paths in them, so a square for BANCHI is to be costituted by some smaller squares.

In countrysides, there is no rule! You just need to ask someone whose house you look for!