With the cheap yen and visitors flooding Japan, social media sites are overflowing with itinerary and transit questions. Should I get a JR PASS or not, how much cash do […]
Mobile Transit
Disability fare Suica and Eki-Net Services
I have been wanting to write about Disability Fare Suica/PASMO ever since the service started in March 2023. When I lived in Osaka my deaf friends always used the staffed […]
Japan Journal
When did we stop reading album credits?
The “How the Collapse of CD Sales Crashed the Music Industry” YouTube hosts make a good point that nobody bothers with band member names anymore. When did we stop taking […]
Mobile Transit
JR Shinkansen ticket disinformation
When westerners first visited Edo, soon to be renamed Tokyo, most of them looked down on local fire fighters as backward and ill-equipped for the job. Only a few took […]
Mobile Transit
Hiroshima dumps proprietary PASPY FeliCa transit card…for a different kind of proprietary FeliCa transit card
Talk about back tracking. When Hiroshima Electric Railway Co.,Ltd. (Hiroden) announced in March 2022 that they were replacing the FeliCa based Hiroshima region proprietary PASPY transit card with QR Code […]
Japanese Typography
Safari 17.4 Vertical Writing Modes won’t change a thing
WebKit got a significant upgrade with Safari 17.4 in the iOS 17.4/macOS 14.4 update. One new feature is Vertical Writing Modes, a new form control element that is part of […]