Travel to Japan: Things To Consider Before Leaving -part 2-
Another issue that often worry about is security, but Japan is a country that is safe, especially for tourists, because the laws tend to be harder Nipponese with the offender when the victim is a tourist, which helps ensure their safety .
Although the reality is that Japan has one of the most important organized mafias in the world, the Yakuza, but surprisingly are very well tolerated by the people – are “syndicated” and have offices and any other company – and if you ask a Japanese may not have a bad opinion of the Yakuza.
The Yakuza are mainly involved in prostitution, drug trafficking and gambling, but do not worry because it is difficult to reveal by tourists, despite the fact that they are easily recognizable by the large number of tattoos they have and because often lack phalanges in the fingers – that are amputated themselves as a sign of repentance for having breached the Code Yakuza -.
Also Japan is full of policemen. Every few blocks there is a booth with a couple of them – called koban ? ? – to deal with any problem, but the fact is that they spend much of their time to guide pedestrians and often have small maps of the area – very useful in country where most of the streets have no name -.
In Japan it is compulsory to documented, so it is important to carry your passport with you at all times, even if they catch an illegal immigrant simply accompany tourists to the hotel to check the passport.
In an emergency, the police number is 110 and the 119 ambulances, but if you speak Japanese the best is to leave this task to someone that if he does – the Japanese are extremely friendly and help you always smoothly I ask that even if you do not understand too -.
It is also important to have health insurance. In Japan do not have a Universal Social Security system as Spanish and it is always advisable to have medical coverage – you should know that Social Security will not cover us in the world -. However, most private health insurance and car insurance as some cover these cases without the need for extra spending.
The medical cost of a visit is usually around 60 euros and prescription drugs in Spain also tend to require it there so if you suffer an illness, it should be well prepared and bring all necessary medications for the trip.
In Japan not worry about shots or anything like that. Just have some rare indigenous disease and really hard to catch as encephalitis japonica.
For me in particular only one bug has bitten me, which was resolved with a simple antihistamine drug that gave me quite amazed with the swelling of the bite, but was probably more my fault that the Japanese bug – I am a tremendous allergic – and he may not be more than an insignificant gnat.
redit to: Susana Font
Source: www.diariodelviajero.com/japon/viajar-a-japon-cosas-a-tener-en-cuenta-antes-de-partir
image source: www.finnair.com/japan/static/images/japan_overview_2.jpg
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