BF>> But I don't like to carry all my stuff on my back and sleep on the bac

 CS> Huh?  You gotta check out Japan trains.  Not at all like that.  Sleeper
 CS> cabins and such.  Sure you can carry your luggage if you want to, or you
 CS> can check it in.  Don and i travel often so learned to pack tight and
 CS> might use just a backpack each, but thats just so we dont have to bother
 CS> to check baggage in and out.

But you have to carry the backpack to and from the trains and the whole day
untill you find a room and my body isn't made for hard work.
I like to go to the airport and stow the luggage on the conveyor belt and pick
it up when I arrive and during the trip I like to take a whiskey.

 CS>> Hehe you wont be allowed to rent a car in Japan probably.

BF>> Eh...Why not? Don't you have Avis?

 CS> We have rental places, but the laws here are very different and your
 CS> license where you are probably wont work here.  Also as you do not have
 CS> Japanese insurance, you will have to pay extra (quite expensive) to cover
 CS> that.  I ran into that same insurance mess when we were stateside as we do
 CS> not have USA insurance so had we rented a car there, we had to pay 20$ a
 CS> day more.  We opted to use a cab as it cost less in the long run.

Ops, doesn't sound good for a turist that.
Wonder why they have those laws. Haven't heard anything like that before.

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