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  • Driving In Japan - Contents
  • Japan - What To Expect - Highlights
  • About Me & Where To Find Me
  • How To Get The Best Out Of Japan
  • Japan Travel Planning Tips And Highlights
  • March 21, 2022: Going To School
  • Driving In Japan
  • Car Rental Tips And Tricks
  • The Year In Japan
  • Discovering Tohoku
  • Japan - What To Expect
  • April 10: Seasonal delicacies at McDonalds
  • April 20: The Dangerous Japanese City Streets
  • The Five Seasons Of Japan
  • Read More Tips Here Every Other Week
  • May 3, 2022: Garbage Collection
  • Triple Toddlers In Tokyo
  • May 11, 2022: Vegetable fields close to Tokyo
  • Taking the train in Tokyo
  • Staying Safe In Japan
  • May 29 2022: Dog Pooping Not Allowed!
  • June 27, 2022: How To Navigate A Japanese Hotel Breakfast
  • Wisterian Watertrees Writing Samples
  • Sign Up For My Newsletter And More Here!
  • August 12, 2022: The Kei Truck
  • What Am I Writing Now?
  • September 7, 2022: Rainy Days And Traffic Dangers
  • September 25, 2022: Masks Will Not Go Away From Japan
  • October 15, 2022: Is It Open Or Closed?
  • My Current And Forthcoming Books About Visiting Japan
  • Worcationeering - how to prepare for remote vacation work
  • November 13, 2022: The Osaka And Tokyo Escalators
  • December 13, 2022: Seeing Around Corners
  • Driving In Japan - Contents

What Is In The Book?

This book is intended to help anyone who wants to drive in Japan, but does not have the benefit of either experience or a Japanese drivers education. If you are Japanese, you have a cultural background that visitors lack; you can read Japanese, which visitors can not.
As a visitor it is easy to get confused by the strange street signs and roads full of writing. Where does the 30-zone end, and where does it start? What does the road sign with a push cart on it mean? Where will that old lady on a bicycle cross the road?
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Japanese roads are full of cheery signs where the authorities encourage safer driving.
Going to Japan, you need to be prepared. The more you know, the more you understand about what you see, the more you will enjoy your visit. And that goes double for your driving. Getting out on the Japanese roads unprepared will reduce you to a trembling, nervous wreck by lunchtime your first day of driving. If you know what you are getting into, you will enjoy the experience. Especially if you stay out of the big cities.
That is why I wrote this book. Helping you prepare to make your experience in Japan more enjoyable is what I am working for.
So I wrote this book to help anyone who is not used to driving in Japan. I included chapters on how to drive in the big cities, how to handle smaller cities, Japanese road signs, winter and summer driving, how to handle earthquakes and tsunamis, expressways, children (and others with special needs) in the car.
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On the side of the roads there are signs where the authorities tell you how to drive - or, like here, stop.
There are special chapters in how to handle pedestrians, what to do when you meet the police, what to do if you get into an accident, and how to avoid them. I tell you what car you should choose, how to drive in the mountains, and what to do when you meet cyclists and bicyclists.
During the course of the book, I generally try to point out the hundreds of things that you need to consider when driving in Japan - which is much more than keeping your car to the left side of the road.
Driving in Japan does not have to be difficult. It can even be fun. After reading this book, you are prepared for what you will meet on the Japanese roads.
Get the book here: https://www.books2read.com/DrivingInJapan/

Table of Contents for Driving In Japan

Pasting the table of contents here is a bit like reading the TV guide. You know the name of the program, when it starts, and the presenter. But otherwise, it is not really the same thing. But here you are. At least you will have an idea about what is in the book.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Renting A Car In Japan
Pre-driving check list:
Chapter 2 Why Make It A Hybrid?
Chapter 3 Driver Responsibilities
Chapter 4 Japanese Road Signs
Chapter 5 Japanese Speed Limits
Chapter 6 Japanese Traffic Police
Chapter 7 Trains, Trams, And Buses
Chapter 8 Seeing Through Intersections And Around Corners
Chapter 9 Driving In The Dark
Chapter 10 Japanese Winter Driving
Chapter 11 Summer Driving
Chapter 12 Spring And Fall Driving
Chapter 13 Mountain Driving
Chapter 14 Big City Driving
Chapter 15 Navigating City Streets
Chapter 16 Bad Weather Driving
Chapter 17 Earthquake And Tsunami Driving
Chapter 18 Scenic Route And Tourist Driving
Chapter 19 Driving On The Expressways
Chapter 20 Driving With Special Needs
Chapter 21 Japanese Driving Peculiarities
Chapter 22 Filling Up Your Car In Japan
Chapter 23 Children In Japanese Cars
Chapter 24 Parking In Japan
Chapter 25 Motorcycles And Bicycles
Chapter 26 Pedestrians In Japan
Chapter 27 What To Do When You Get A Puncture
Chapter 28 What To Do If You Have An Accident
Chapter 29 How To Plan And Navigate Your Trip
Chapter 30 Did you enjoy this book?

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​https://www.books2read.com/DrivingInJapan
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