Many people have been to Hokkaido, but many friends are still preparing to go, so Xiaobian presents dry goods prepared for everyone. I've got everything ready for you about changing the visa, transportation, preparation before departure, and telephone calls. Are you moved?

Hokkaido is very suitable for traveling in summer. Compared with the hot temperature of 38 degrees in Suzhou, Shanghai, the weather in Hokkaido is really comfortable at around 28 degrees. You should wear short sleeves and trousers during the day and wear a thicker coat and trousers when you go out at night. Business hours

banks: 9am-3pm from Monday to Friday, shops and supermarkets: 9am-6pm

, 9am-9pm in downtown Hokkaido, and 1am-1pm in some areas. The tax refund is basically a refund of 5,4 yen and 8% consumption tax, but a handling fee of 1.1% is charged. EAST has several levels of policy, and you can get a 5% discount if you show your passport directly. If the tax refund is made directly at the payment office on each floor, the cash will be returned. But general goods and consumables are calculated separately. On the other hand, Daimaru Department Store presents its passport at the service office on the first floor to get a preferential list, which is also 15% off, but there are regulations on which goods cannot be discounted. The tax refund is also calculated separately for general goods and consumables, but it can be accumulated in many places, and can be calculated together in one day, and the tax refund can be made at the 7 th floor. There are many shops outside the security checkpoint in new chitose airport, so it's better not to buy too many, because the things bought here should not be portable on the plane. According to the regulations of China Eastern Airlines, there can only be one piece of hand luggage, and the inspection is very strict. New chitose airport doesn't need to check the duty-free goods one by one, just tear off the tax bill and put it in the box they prepared. Trams and buses

get on the bus from the back door. There is a ticket dispenser next to the door. Everyone takes a sorting ticket. The sorting ticket is coded and records the station where you get on the bus. At the same time, the fare from boarding to the current station will be displayed on the screen at the front of the carriage, and the fare will move forward one grid for each additional station. Get off the bus and go to the front door, put the sorting coupons into the box next to the driver's seat, and put the corresponding ticket money into the coin slot. You can only use 5 or 1 coins for coin insertion. There is also a change machine next to the coin box, so you can change the money when you put the paper money in.

Sapporo: English sapporo Japanese newspaper station "sapporo

emergency telephone number: 11-222-4894, 24-hour standby telephone consultation window "Emergency Relief Center Sapporo" Chinese-English Tel: #7119 If you can't get through, please call 11-272-7119 Hospital that can receive patients at night and on rest days

Name of the hospital

Address: East 14, No.33, East Zone, Sapporo City

Tel: 11-722-111* Call before coming to the hospital

WIFI: 17:- 9: the next day

Saturdays, Sundays and holidays: 9:- 9: the next day

Languages: English, Chinese, Korean, Russian, Spanish, Portuguese, Mongolian, Indonesian, Malay and Guarani

Please pay attention. For domestic calls in Japan, +86 is in front of the phone number. If the Japanese telephone number seen on the domestic hotel is called in Japan, remove 81 and add in front.

ambulance and fire truck: 119 police station: 11

Accommodation reservation: www.booking.com, www.japanican.com

Air ticket reservation: Taobao

Note (summer is also the peak season of Hokkaido's tourist area, so Meiying's hotel reservation must be made early)

Take out the printed ones directly after you arrive in Hokkaido.

for the time and frequency of p>JR's ride, you can check the two apps, googlemap and in-case transfer, which are downloaded in advance on your mobile phone. They are not available in China, but they are accessible abroad. Language

Except for hotel staff, English in Japan is generally a foreign language with a Japanese accent, so speaking words is far more effective than sentences in communication. Pay attention to using more body language and learn to understand. Articles

Passport, ID card, charging treasure, charger, eye mask, adapter, camera, notebook, water cup, pen, medicine (mother-eater, berberine, Zuo Ke, cephalosporin, thermometer, triamcinolone acetonide, VC, bupleurum, Radix Isatidis, whole intestine), clothes. Air tickets

There are direct flights from Shanghai to Hokkaido. But because we saved the cost, we chose the red-eye flight connecting in Tokyo. Go to Tokyo after a sleep. Tokyo will transfer to Sapporo. The price is naturally much cheaper than direct flights. Visa

Japanese visas have been opened more and more now. I remember that going to Japan for a visa in 29 required a lot of materials, various certificates and bank deposits, which felt very troublesome. And this time, the Japanese visa is really simple to my surprise. Because we had a lot of Schengen visas and 1-year visas in the United States before, this visa only provided basic personal information and work certificates.

Japanese visa actually seems to be one of the relatively complicated visas for Chinese people, which requires a lot of things, but it's actually okay if you clear your mind.

There are three kinds of Japanese visas for tourism purposes: single visa, multiple visas for three years and multiple visas for five years.

a single visa requires the least things, although it is also quite troublesome, such as air tickets, hotel orders, ID cards, household registration books and work certificates of blabla.

I have asked for more in three years, but it has been simplified recently. If I have been to Japan before, I need an annual salary of 1W

RMB. If I have never been to Japan, I need 2W. Moreover, I need a tax form stamped by the tax bureau, and I can't write a sentence directly in my work certificate. The most important thing is to stay in Okinawa or Fukushima or Sendai or Iwate for at least one night during the whole trip. In fact, it's just to stimulate the economy of those places ~ to meet these conditions, you can provide everything at the first time, and you can go in and out at will within three years after you get a visa ~

For more than five years, the discount is better than that for more than three years. You don't need to have previous experience in Japan, you don't need to stay there, and you can go in and out at will within five years after you get a visa ~ ~ The only way to compare that, after tax. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

In Beijing, a single visa costs 288 yuan each, which is quite cheap ~ Before these two visas were issued at his home, the customer service was relatively reliable. Although many people who asked questions may not be able to reply in a few minutes, once they start to reply to you, the conversation can basically continue

Moreover, the online store links are quite clear about the required materials, so just prepare them as they are

If you don't need to add anything, they will send it to the embassy.

Generally, it will be within 1 working days from the time they pass the preliminary examination to the actual signing. It actually takes us about 8 working days. We will call you after signing the contract. You can choose to pick it up or let them express it by SF Express.

As a whole, it's a more reliable store, and the price is already cheaper in Taobao store in Beijing. Even if there are some cheaper ones, it's limited. It's better to choose this bigger and more reliable one. It was other friends who signed the recommended equipment here before.

Hokkaido is dry and cold, and I didn't feel particularly cold when I got there. However, the exposed skin should still pay attention to protecting the cold. Except gloves and hats and scarves. Be sure to bring ski pants and professional anti-skid shoes for children. Because children will be very, very excited when they see snow. It's the kind that goes straight into the snow. (Please forgive the parents who have seen the world in the north ~ haha) If you don't wear a professional, you will still get wet and catch cold. Also remember sunscreen, the reflective ultraviolet rays in the snow are invisible to the skin. Transportation

I recommend a website JRPASS

This is actually something I don't actually use ~

1,7 JPY, including a one-day ticket for the subway in Sapporo, as well as taking any train in the Sapporo-Otaru section for unlimited times on a certain day ~

It's actually very worthwhile ~ but it's a pity that I was in Otaru that day. Make a list for your reference.

1) Spa Hotel ソレすすきの

is actually a capsule hotel. . .

However, I have to say that the capsule attempt was a great success ~~

As you can see in the previous travel notes, the capsule hotel really has everything, and I actually like capsules better than many people in the youth travel service ~

But the disadvantages of capsules are also obvious-first, there is no separate room, so I can only live in capsules; Secondly, most capsule hotels in Japan don't accept female guests -_-

but at the same time, they are really cost-effective, very cheap, staying for two days, one * * * 5,4 JPY, and 2) p>2)LaVistaHakodateBay/ラビスタ letter _ タ It's really a good location ~

. It's basically in the middle between Hakodate JR Station and Hakodate Mountain Cable Car Mountaineering Station, and it's also very close to the Dickinson Warehouse. You can directly see Hakodate Mountain when you soak in the water ~

Cost-effective, even if it's ok, it's a relatively normal hotel at 965JPY a night. You can try it for breakfast. Anyway, Hakodate doesn't seem to have many other distinctive accommodations. .

3)ComfortHotelKushiro

Just staying at Kushiro for one night. This hotel is very nice.

It's very close to JR Station. It's 2 minutes' walk. It's very cheap, the room is normal and the cost performance is very high. Only 35 JPY a night

4) ぁかんの の の の の の の の の の の の の の の の の の の 123 After "If You Are the One",

Heya Group has three hotels in Lake Ahan, and this is the cheapest one. . . Well, you don't have to live alone. Feel good

16666JPY one night, including dinner and breakfast buffet.

The dinner is ok, and the taste is not bad, but in view of the really delicious Huaishi cuisine in the next few days, the rectification can only be the case.

Breakfast is not bad, and there are many kinds.

Besides, Heya's big bathroom is ok, especially the one on the first floor. ! ! ! !

Meiying's homestay is actually in the middle of Meiying and Meima Niu, about 6 kilometers away from Meiying Station.

The homestay can pick up the bus, but it only has a fixed time every day, and it is at the above two stations at 3, 4 and 5 pm respectively. Outside this time, you can only take a taxi by yourself ~ drivers know it, 6 kilometers is about 2JPY. . . .

The biggest feature of this homestay is that you can sign up for the daytime phototour in winter. Oh ~ ~

There are many beautiful places near Meiying, but it is definitely not possible to lean on your legs, let alone winter. Therefore, it is extremely important to have a car ~

At this time, it shows the benefits of Jacatra ~

There are official website and http://www.biei-jacatra.jp/about in the B&B, which can be booked three months in advance, with a deposit of 15JPY at the time of booking, and the rest will be handed over to the site.

In my own words, it is 82JPY a night. Plus phototour4JPY, one person

phototour leaves at 9: in the morning, and will take everyone to a place for dinner at noon. The taste is OK and the price is normal. After eating, we will send everyone back to Meiying JR Station before 2: ~

6) B&B ぁきば

A B&B in Furano, with a good price/performance ratio and many people coming to ski. I just came back to sleep at night ~

The boss is an uncle, and his English is not bad ~ It's not far from JR Furano Station, so it's only six or seven minutes' walk. Take your time, 41JPY does not include meals a night, and the cost performance is good ~

7) International Hostel Khaosansaporo

The only hotel to stay this time is Sapporo, and it's more than 1 minutes' walk to the west of Bono subway station. . . . Cyts beds are even more expensive than capsules-_-surfing the Internet

There are roughly two ways to surf the Internet in Japan: buying a phone card and renting a portable wifi

1) buying a phone card. Before, China Unicom and Japan forgot which operator had launched a cherry blossom card. It was a fire for a while, but now the most popular card should be b-mobile. This is an ordinary mobile phone SIM card. You can choose the card size to adapt to different mobile phone models. This card generally has a total traffic of 1G (there are more). It is valid for 3 days from the card opening date, so you can use it directly as an ordinary SIM card. Legend has it that the signal is also good and you can't make calls.

In addition, this card has one of the biggest advantages, that is, because there are enough people using it, it is very convenient to relay the unused time and traffic to the next person after using it. Generally, comments from taobao shops that buy cards can be made directly, or there are many WeChat official account who follow the comments in Weibo. Before I checked, I said that basically I can transfer it out within 1-2 days after posting the transfer post. < P > This 1G 3-day card is about 2RMB, and if one card is transferred for two people, it is about 1 RMB per person. Or if everyone's time is 7-1 days, three people will spend an average of 7 yuan per person, which is still very cost-effective. Legend has it that there used to be the best relay to the fifth best, which of course also shows that everyone's time in Japan is not very long. . . .

However, this kind of card seems to have certain restrictions on mobile phones. On the one hand, it must be 3G standard of WCDMA, on the other hand, it cannot be a dual-card dual-standby mobile phone

So I was honored with pass. . . You can only choose the next one

2) Rent a portable wifi

This is actually very mature. There are many stores on taobao, most of which can pick up the plane at a fixed location at the airport on the day of departure, and will give you the wifi machine, charger and deposit receipt, and then return it at the airport when you come back from Japan, and refund the deposit on the spot (or swipe your credit card for pre-authorization, and also