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  • 倍金萬
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  • 2018/02/14 11:44

Those of you who have crossed the ocean to come here to Los Angeles and Japan
are always concerned about something related to your travel between Los Angeles and Japan.

If you have anything to say or questions, please feel free to write.
I'll try to write "something" as well.

Example ：
What means do you use to call when you return to Japan?

Which seat on the plane do you prefer, Aisle or Window, front, back,

Which airline do you think has the best food?

Which mode of transportation do you use to get to the local area?

and so on and so on

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#3656

#3653 Hiro,

https://youtu.be/p8dQITdJmWY?si=VFYRUSHBAaFlWZsN


Ototsukun

＞ For those who have a US passport It doesn't seem to matter

Of course it does. I'm a complete foreign tourist in Japan.

But if you look Japanese and speak Japanese fluently, you are considered a Japanese living in Japan, so
be sure to show your US passport when paying.

I am also a US citizen, but when I travel to Japan, I only buy food at convenience stores, so
I never show my passport.

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#3657
  • ガセネタ太郎
  • 2023/11/26 (Sun) 21:17
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And it's mandatory to show your passport at checkout.

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#3658

＞ Showing passport at checkout is compulsory


Is it "compulsory"?


I have never been forced to do so.

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#3659

Gase Taro,

You should put a note saying "only if you don't want to be charged sales tax".

Come to think of it, I used to pay it honestly even when I was shopping for 1,000 yen.

Next time I'm not in a hurry, I should show my passport.

I wonder if they don't like it when there is a line to pay at convenience stores.

Or, do the cash register machines already have a "no sales tax" function, even in stores run by grandmothers alone?

Those of us who were born around the end of the war had no idea of the "checkout process" in Japan today.

I guess I'm getting a bit dim, but when I went to Japan, I paid at the cash register at both convenience stores and supermarkets, regardless of the amount, just plain and simple.

On the other hand, are there any of you here who always show your passport when you travel to Japan, regardless of the amount ？?

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#3660
  • 昭和のおとっつぁん
  • 2023/11/28 (Tue) 15:22
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Even if you have a Japanese face and speak Japanese fluently, you are a foreigner.
You can't tell just by looking at him.

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#3661
  • 90501
  • 2023/11/28 (Tue) 22:12
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Ana,
I don't quite understand what you are saying. I'm talking about not paying sales tax when you shop at a duty free store. It doesn't matter if it's a "convenience store" or "a store run by a grandmother alone".

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#3662
  • ガセネタ太郎
  • 2023/11/29 (Wed) 08:41
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I thought we were talking about when you shop at a store in town that has a sign up that says duty free ？.

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#3663
  • 昭和のおとっつぁん
  • 2023/11/30 (Thu) 07:32
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I don't see duty free stores in Los Angeles, but there seem to be many in Japan.

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#3664

Is that so? I had believed that all retailers in Japan charge sales tax, just like the sales tax here.

I guess the blurriness is finally starting to show all over my body.

I was not aware of the Japanese consumption tax at all, because I do not buy cameras, electrical goods, or luxury ornaments when I travel to Japan. The people who come to this exchange square are all kind people. Please keep up the good work.

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#3666
  • 90501あいうえお
  • 2023/11/30 (Thu) 10:02
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The people who come to this exchange square are all kind people. Please keep up the good work.
Just 1% are kind and the rest are just anti.

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#3667
  • 70台前半
  • 2023/11/30 (Thu) 11:56
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It is only strange in Japan, where there are duty free stores all over the city and goods are delivered there.
As expected, the resellers are on to it, and it is a hotbed of tax evasion. From now on, it seems that the consumption tax will be paid once the goods are taken out of the country and the tax will be returned when the goods are taken out of the country.

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#3668
  • ガセネタ太郎
  • 2023/11/30 (Thu) 12:40
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Same thing if you don't check your goods at the airport of departure.

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#3669

＞ Only 1% are nice and the rest are anti

No, no, one out of three are nice. On the other hand, those who swear use various H.N.s, so there seem to be a lot of them.

＞ From now on, we are going to pay consumption tax once and return it at the stage of taking goods out of the country

This also seems to be difficult due to the institutional time "when leaving the country" system enforcement and specific money handling methods.

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#3670

I found a Y/T reporting the ZIPAIR LAX ⇔ NRT flight in English and put it up.


https://youtu.be/r2rUiw5lqoQ?si=E-4pTFxmVL529vc9


I will take my time and report later.

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#3671
  • 昭和27
  • 2023/12/03 (Sun) 12:32
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I don't have a computer on the trip so I can't go over it in detail, but I'm aiming for Zipair for my next trip to Japan.

As youtube above strongly says, wifi is free. Now I can watch the news, youtube, and vivinavi in real time.

Premium economy on other airlines costs ＄ 1800, and buying business class on Zipair is ＄ 1000. Even if you add that to the price, it's still cheap. I especially like being able to lie down and sleep on the plane on the way home.

I am not promoting Zipair. I want to go to Japan next year with this plan imagination.

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#3672

In one U/T dealing with ZipAir,

＞ ZipAir toilets are not washlets unlike JAL/ANA

but were they washlets on JAL/ANA?

At least on the JAL/ANA toilets I flew on that I entered from the economy seats, they were not washlets.

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#3674
  • 昭和27
  • 2023/12/04 (Mon) 16:06
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The JAL I went to this year was not a washlet.

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#3676
  • spiderman
  • 2023/12/04 (Mon) 23:42
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You can't do a washlet in an airplane. This is because the fountain will hit you explosively.

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#3677

When I flew back on ANA in October, they had a washlet in economy.

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#3678

＞ The fountain hits explosively

You have a point, but I'm not sure. It is true that the air pressure inside the cabin is a little lower than on the ground, but since the water jet from the washlet is being pumped by an electric pump, I would think that the force of the jet would be the same regardless of the outside air pressure.


＞ #3674 Showa 27,

What class did you fly, Showa 27? Was the toilet in business class different from that in economy ？?

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