BF>> But you have to carry the backpack to and from the trains and the whol
BF>> untill you find a room and my body isn't made for hard work.

 CS> Not really any different from carrying it to the airport and to your room.

It is. Then it's unpacked and will stay there until I have to pack it again for
the home trip.

We are now looking at the last-minute trips again. The other day a saw one
to Tunisia for $135 for a week.


 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 not
 CS>> have USA insurance so had we rented a car there, we had to pay 20$ a day
 CS>> more.  We opted to use a cab as it cost less in the long run.

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

 CS> Different driving rules.  This isnt europe where your insurance will cover
 CS> from country to country.

Didn't know Japan was so different from other countries.

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