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• #We re big in japan driver#

The “Relax” class seats are more akin to first-class airplane seats than to motor coach seats. Our second ride, however, was a much more pleasant experience. She finally resigned herself to reappropriating her inflatable neck pillow ($5 at Jupiter’s Wal-Mart) from the window pane to under her tush. She wiggled and wormed around in her seat, shifting from one cheek to the next at no avail. Her, whose rear had become uncharacteristically bony after the Extreme Thai diet, experienced a different sort of agony: The Dreaded Numb Butt. I felt like a zombie by 6:30 a.m., the time we pulled into the Kyoto train station the next morning. As soon as I fell asleep, the cycle would begin again.

#We re big in japan driver#

When the bus started moving again, the driver would again speak in ironically amplified hushed tones for several minutes before shutting off the lights.

The lights would turn on and the driver would begin talking over the PA system in Japanese for several minutes. However, it seemed every time I managed to drift off, the bus arrived at one of the six intermediate stops. I did my best to apologize in Japanese and then raised my seat back to the original, nearly right angle, and tried to sleep. Better to ask forgiveness later.”Īnd that’s exactly what I did after managing to elicit protests in Japanese from the girl seated behind me. “So you become the chump they deny? No thank you. Technically, the seats reclined, but this function was limited by the knees of the individuals seated behind us.Īs we did, other Americans might find amusement with signs indicating customers should ask permission of the person behind them before reclining their seat.

It also meant that there was no room to rest on my side or even tilt myself to get comfortable. This meant we had to raise the armrest between us to fit comfortably. After our Extreme Thai “diet”, Her and I were even thinner than usual, but the cushions were still almost as wide as my behind. But the journey soon became memorable for all the wrong reasons: Our seats were not designed with Western-sized butts in mind. Boarding the heated bus was bliss because it allowed us to escape the frigid Hiroshima winter. Our first ride started out alright: We met the bus at the Hiroshima train station parking lot right on time at 10:15PM. On our first ride, Hiroshima to Kyoto (JPY4,100 each), only “Standard” seats were available. On our second ride, Kyoto to Tokyo (JPY4,900 each), we managed to snag two “Relax” class seats. We ended up buying tickets for two overnight buses: Hiroshima to Kyoto and Kyoto to Tokyo.Īs it turns out, not all bus experiences are created equal. We purchased our tickets in advance through the Willer Express website and found it to be easy to navigate and make purchases. Plus, they saved us the cost of two nights spent in hotels. Overnight buses are usually something we try to avoid since they are often one of the slowest and most uncomfortable methods of transport, but the bus tickets were a fraction of the price of train tickets. Instead, we opted to take the Willer Express company’s overnight buses.

This can be one of the most convenient and fastest methods of traversing the country, but the price tag is a little hefty and, for our itinerary, would be as expensive as buying individual train tickets. Many people purchase the JR rail pass which provides unlimited travel within the country’s train system for a specified period of time. To be sure, it’s not a budget destination, but one of the biggest expenses travelers face - intra-country travel - doesn’t have to leave you with an empty wallet. Japan has a reputation of being an astronomically expensive country.