🇯🇵 How to use the local bus in Japan
🚍 Local Bus is another necessary form of travel to places inaccessible by train./ญี่ปุ่นSo called comprehensive, from urban to outback, there are virtually all buses available.
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🚌 How to take a local bus in Japan
1. Stand in line and wait at the bus stop where you want to board. The stop area has clear route information and timetable, but the bus can be slower than the schedule because traffic jams are not like more timely trains, but they are much better at the time than Thai buses.
2. Walk in the car at the back door (except some lines may go up the front door)
● Pay cash: Pick up a paper ticket located next to the ascent gate, where the ticket has a directing number. Keep the ticket until it reaches its destination.
● Pay with IC Card (Suica, ICOCA, etc.): Tap the card at the car reader. No need to pick up a paper ticket.
3. The front screen will tell the fare price of each number.
4. After hearing the next sign, ring the bell before reaching the sign and wait until the car stops at the sign.
5. When the car is parked at the stop, walk to pay with the automatic money collector in front of the car next to the driver. No rush. The driver is definitely waiting.
● Pay cash: Drop out the paper ticket and the entry coin to the amount of the fare (no change). If the coin is not enough, the exchange machine will be on the side of the payment machine by inserting a 1000 yen note or 500 yen coin, and the machine will exchange 100 yen and 50 yen.
● Pay with IC Card. Tap the card on the driver's side reader and exit through the front door.
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💡 Knowledge for novices
● Many buses that may switch up the front door and out the back door, observe the "Entrance" sticker on the door as the front or back door, or line up according to the locals.
● Using the pass to the bus only shows the driver the pass when leaving, but it is recommended that the ticket should be picked up every time, because if the pass does not occur (usually with the digital pass on the phone), regular cash will be paid.


















































































































