How to Ride a Train Using a Metro Prepaid Card in Japan (Suica/Pasmo)

  Tokyo is really famous for the complicated transportation system. Sometimes even Japanese people sightseeing Tokyo can’t figure out how to buy tickets and transfer trains. But if you have a PASMO/SUICA card, you can deal with almost any money transaction including transferring for trains and buses - even shopping!!   How to buy PASMO/SUICA [...]

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Learning to become a Geisha in Tokyo

  Hi, this is Rei Sandy, and I’m an intern at FindJPN. For a while now, I’ve been tagging along a couple of FindJPN activities to report back how these activities turned out. So early morning on a day in April, I went to go see a FindJPN customer become a geisha along with another [...]

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A Detailed Report of a Tea Ceremony in Ginza

My name is Rei Sandy, and I’m an Intern at FindJPN. On April 2nd, I went to see a tea ceremony held in Ginza hosted for two of our customers Alison and Kavin. All the people at the tea ceremony, including the teacher, were great so I want to tell you about them as well [...]

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Learning What Lolita is with “Pochi”

Over the next three posts, I’ll be writing about the many interviews I did with the club I talked about last week – “The Gothic, Lolita, and Punk Club”. I’ll be writing about what lolitas do every day, why they wear Lolita clothes and other information that may help to understand who Lolitas are. Our [...]

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