You can go to Japan with cash or plastic cards Visa, Master Card, etc. There are ATMs in the country, although not at every corner, some do not serve all kinds of kart. Therefore, many tourists prefer to buy yen in Russia or change their dollars to the national currency on the spot.

In advance it is necessary to take care of adapters for sockets and voltage regulators. In Japan, the sockets represent flat vertical slits, rather narrow, the voltage in the network is 100 V.

Only mobile phones supporting CDMA and 3G standards operate in the country. Such a device can be rented.

Knowledge of Japanese is not necessary for visiting the country, most of the inscriptions on the streets, in the metro, etc., are duplicated in English. Residents of large cities often understand English, young people speak in broken lines. On walks with yourself it is better to have a business card of the hotel in which you stayed, with the address and details in Japanese.

If you have to survive the earthquake, keep calm, behave like the surrounding Japanese. In any hotel room, just in case, keep the assembled "alarm case" with documents and things of prime necessity