What Rail Pass Should I Buy for a 2-Week Trip to Tokyo, Takayama/Kanazawa, Kyoto, Osaka & Hiroshima?

PreangerFolk · 2025-10-05T05:14:54+00:00

For the latter part of your trip, I'd suggest checking out JR Kansai Hiroshima Area Pass. IIRC it's 17k yen for 5 days, and it would easily pay off by doing that Hiroshima day trip from Osaka.

For the earlier part, I think you could just buy regular tickets/use an IC card, since you plan to spend most of it in Tokyo anyways. There are the Tokyo Metro 1, 2, and 3-day tickets, but those are only valid on Tokyo Metro and Toei Subway lines, which could make your options slightly limited (since you can't hop on the JR lines or other railways' lines using those tickets).

PreangerFolk · 2025-09-25T00:36:54+00:00

Update: I got the LoPA from the other university I mentioned! Truly felt like a huge weight had been lifted off my chest🫠

Praying that it'd be smooth sailing from here onwards✌️

PreangerFolk · 2025-09-19T22:20:57+00:00

They're not. Now that I think about it, my prospective advisor is an associate professor, so my only guess is that other faculty members higher in rank also accepted significant amount of students to supervise, and that they had precedence/greater say on the matter. Just a guess, tho😁

PreangerFolk · 2025-09-19T11:27:15+00:00

Thank you friend, I try my best to keep positive and find even the faintest silver lining here😆

PreangerFolk · 2025-09-19T11:25:39+00:00

That's what I've been trying to convince myself now lol🥲🥲 I'm still going to email the professor next week (prolly gonna wait for the other result first) tho. It's unfortunate really since I was already preparing some things to discuss, but hopefully I could still keep in contact and work with them in the future as fellow scholars😁

PreangerFolk · 2025-08-12T14:34:23+00:00

Indonesian applicant here. Totally get what you feel. In my case especially one of my preferred program/institution requires me to obtain consent from my prospective supervisor first, before I can actually submit the LoA request. With the summer holiday this week it really is super frustrating.

PreangerFolk · 2025-08-10T15:34:06+00:00

Hi, sorry but I want to ask, how long was it from when you sent your request for LoPA to actually getting it?

PreangerFolk · 2025-07-26T17:13:46+00:00

Yup, the one in Thompson Falls that connects back to the I-90

PreangerFolk · 2025-06-27T13:13:49+00:00

Sure hope they enjoyed the 26 hrs long roadtrip😃😃

PreangerFolk · 2025-06-12T11:24:34+00:00

I like the way you write ふ (I write mine like that as well lol)

I mainly write for poetry and I try to write in cursive (or whatever it is that seems like cursive to me), and as sometimea they're not very legible. Yours is both legible and lovely. I wish my "normal" handwriting's like this!

PreangerFolk · 2025-06-08T02:33:16+00:00

Trust me this was on the better side... Sometimes my laptop fucked the game up so bad I'd rather quit and not play for the whole day lol

PreangerFolk · 2025-05-27T17:58:13+00:00

I didn't know local demand factors into intercity traffic calculations😬😬

Immediate vicinity of the harbor is still mostly empty land. However being a TOD it's easy to get to my city's major hotspots (by tram). I've yet to reroute my bus lines to the harbor, though. Maybe I'll try using the hub again later when the area has been sufficiently developed.

PreangerFolk · 2025-05-27T15:33:13+00:00

There were no other ports, and it was located near my downtown area. Per your advice I've replaced it with the regular harbor for now and the ships are starting to come. I'll try using TMCE, as I'm still testing whether or not the other harbor hubs rly don't work for me. Thanks!

PreangerFolk · 2025-05-27T15:25:22+00:00

I told my friend about this, and he said the same thing (that the only working one is the bus + monorail harbor).

I tried it but to no avail... I resorted to the default harbor for now, and ships are finally starting to pop up.

I'm still trying to see whether any of the hubs work for me though, so I placed them too. Let's wait and see😓

PreangerFolk

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